Bob Proulx wrote: > > ... And > $HOME/.xsession is a more general purpose way of doing it. Except that it's inconsistent: If you log in using different interfaces (console vs. graphical), you get different environments (without intentionally asking for differences). It also means that you have to put settings in two places (your shell's login-initialization file _and_ .xsession). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net