furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote: [...] > I'm totally at a loss. Could someone tell me how one should set > environment variables at the startup of Gnome? A person responded via email to this query of mine. A solution is to write shell commands in ~/.gnomerc. For example, your .gnomerc might look like . $HOME/.bash_profile or you can directly write export commands in there. I'm glad to find this clean solution. Regards, Ryo