On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > How does one set a shell variable when logging in with kdm? IE I want to > set LANG=en_US to work around the gtk font bug. Works fine in a shell but > menu items and the Application Launcher appear not to run a shell first. I am not sure if there are other ways but kdm does set LANG via pam_env /etc/environment if you have one. If you are missing that file run dpkg-reconfigure locales. Chris