Kelvin Ng rearranged electrons thusly: > fine if I login to terminal mode in run level 3 . But > all this alias not working when I switch to use xterm > in KDE desktop environment . > Can somebody tell me what went wrong ? Please help Maybe your kde starts up with some other default shell, such as bash? Again, this is not linux-india-help - which would be the right place for this. +suresh