Hi, I do not know if this was happing before yet recently I discovered that sometimes I am loosing my locale settings when I have more then 2 Xterms opened. The weird thing is it does not happen always SuSE 8.1 Kernel k_deflt-2.4.19-74 Windowmaker (WindowMaker-0.80.2-1 from Mike Fabian's directory) I have the locale settings in $HOME/.profile as export LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 export LC_MESSAGES=en_US export LC_TIME=POSIX export LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8 I am using "utf8xterm" which comes with shtools-2002.01.30-117. So When I have the Xterm for the first time the locale is toganm@earth:~> locale LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_ALL= When I encounter the problem of loosing locales the output is like this LANG=tr_TR LC_CTYPE="tr_TR" LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY="tr_TR" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="tr_TR" LC_NAME="tr_TR" LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR" LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR" LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR" LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR" LC_ALL= I have no idea whatsoever how come the locales change does anybody have ? -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx