&tde; stores information about your personal settings in a few different places: The hidden directory .kde (note the period at the beginning), located in your home directory, contains a large number of files that store &tde; settings. Some subdirectories you may find useful are:.kde/share/config, which contains configuration files for individual applications; .kde/Autostart, which contains links to applications which should start each time you start &tde;; and .kde/share/apps/kabc, where your address book is stored. The environment variables TDEDIR and TDEDIRS tell &tde; where its files are stored. You will usually only need to set TDEDIR to the directory in which &tde; is installed, but sometimes you might have other &tde; programs installed elsewhere: in this case, you can use the TDEDIRS environment variable. Set TDEDIRS to a list of all the directories containing &tde; programs, separated by commas. For example, if you have &tde; programs in both /usr/local/kde and /home/phil/kde, you can use export TDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde if you use bash or setenv TDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde if you use sh. contains more information about the directories that &tde; uses.