GNOME won't read my $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Gary Gutman <mrgaryg yahoo com>]

Hello,
  I'm new to the world of GNOME. I've recently decided
to install a copy of Ximian's GNOME distro for Solaris
8 on SPARC. I have two very enoying problems:

1) I'm noticing that bin's and lib's installed outside
of /opt/gnome path's are not being found. I have my
paths setup as following in ${HOME}/.bash_profile

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/ucblib:/usr/css/lib:/etc/lib:/lib

PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/X/bin

2) I keep getting this enoying message when I launch
commands from the prompt eventhough the command
completes succefully

$ gedit
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Does any one know why I'm havving these problems, and
how do I get around them?

Thanks in advance
Gary

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Gary

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