I have been running Mandrake, and booting to run level 5. This gets me into KDE. I have a desktop icon that runs Xemacs. I've been disappointed to find that my ordinary shell environment (path, other environment variables, aliases), initiated by ~/.tcshrc, is not available to me when I start xemacs by clicking on this icon. I suspect this is the same no matter what program I run, if it's initiated graphically. What I was wondering is "how can I get my ordinary shell environment in place in the course of logging in through kdm (or other display manager)?" Thanks! R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list