--- a/bashrc	Sat Oct 24 15:47:34 2015 +0100
+++ b/bashrc	Sat Oct 24 15:48:50 2015 +0100
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 # Use a sane editor
 export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
+
+#Import aliases
 test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias || true
 
 # Add sbins to path to make life easier (e.g. /sbin/ifconfig)
@@ -17,12 +19,11 @@
 #Disable man page number prompts - where there's more than one, we normally want the default (user command) version
 export MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 
-#Make sure that Thunderbird et al show correct dates
-export LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
-
 #Disable less history, because do I really search the same things enough to use it across sessions?
 export LESSHISTFILE=-
 
+export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
+
 if [ "$PS1" != "" -a "${STARTED_TMUX:-x}" = x -a "${SSH_TTY:-x}" != x ]
 then
         STARTED_TMUX=1; export STARTED_TMUX

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/profile	Sat Oct 24 15:48:50 2015 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# This file is read each time a login shell is started.
+# All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly
+# important for language settings, see below.
+
+#SUSE-ism for importing common profile stuff
+test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile || true
+
+#Make sure that Thunderbird et al show correct dates and that all apps (not just Bash) get the right locale
+export LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
+export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
+
+#Set us up for XCompose support of custom characters
+export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim"
\ No newline at end of file

--- a/setup.sh	Sat Oct 24 15:47:34 2015 +0100
+++ b/setup.sh	Sat Oct 24 15:48:50 2015 +0100
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 create_symlink tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
 create_symlink hgrc ~/.hgrc
 create_symlink bashrc ~/.bashrc
+create_symlink profile ~/.profile
 create_symlink /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/hgext/hgview.py ~/.hgview.py
 create_symlink gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
 create_symlink dircolors ~/.dir_colors