2 questions

[Joseph Oaks]

First, been using XFCE for about a week and a half now, I love it :)

System is a Redhat 9.0 that was installed with Gnome. I installed XFCE
from RPM's and all is fine. Well sort of :/

Question 1: How do I get XFCE to access my .bash_profile, under gnome it
            does this just fine however everytime I start in XFCE it
            will not access for a lace of better terms the .bash_profile
            What have I done wrong?

Question 2: How can I get the gnome menu to work on the XFCE right click
            of the mouse on the desktop? Or better yet have it accesable
            via a left click on the desktop.

Thanks in advance,

Trell