> From: Laurent Martelli <martelli@iie.cnam.fr> > > Yes. I think that xterm are non login shells by default. And it's > xdm's job to source the proper scripts to set up environnement > variables as if you had logged in. Even if you don't use xdm, and start X using startx, your environment is trashed. I assume that since the X server is suid, it resets the environment for security. However, it should re-set your settings, but it doesn't. Daniel