def METHOD_NAME():
    """set system-specific Environmental Variables, and make sure
    that the user larchdirs exist.
    This is run by the interpreter on startup."""
    # ubuntu / unity hack
    if uname.startswith('linux'):
        if 'ubuntu' in os.uname()[3].lower():
            os.environ['UBUNTU_MENUPROXY'] = '0'
    make_user_larchdirs()