James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Brian Monroe wrote:
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It was foretold that on Sunday 22 February 2004 12:53, James Richard Tyrer would write:
If you installed from source on Linux, you probably have this problem.
Your "$HOME/.bash_profile" script is not sourced (executed) when you start
KDE with KDM.
The reason for this is that the Xsession file does not source it. It contains the line:
$HOME/.profile
This needs to be changed to:
$HOME/.bash_profile
There is a bug on this which was closed as invalid.
I have reopened it:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53345
Note: this only applies if you built from source.
Would a symbolic link to the bash profile also work?
Yes, it should.
Perhaps I should amplify this.
Yes, it should *IF*. Yes the big *IF*. :-)
Newbies may get tripped up on this. If you run the: "Xsession" script as Shell and it sources your: "/etc/profile" & "~/.bash_profile" scripts you WILL have problems if the scripts contains Bash syntax extensions (and if you have modified them, they probably will since the: "if - then - else" syntax is a Bash extension) you should also change the first line of the "Xsession" script:
#! /bin/bash
OR perhaps it doesn't really matter as long as you are using Bash.
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