Re: KDE menus (Lancelot, Kmenu, Krunner) not respecting PATH?

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I have a $HOME/.bin (yes, with the dot) in my PATH:
>> $ cat .bash_profile
>> PATH=$HOME/.bin:$PATH
>> export PATH
> 
> Why would a .bash_profile affect KDE *at all*?  .bash_profile is used by 
> *bash* to configure the environment for login runs.  If you are starting a 
> KDE session from KDM/XDM/GDM there's no login bash runs involved in the 
> startup.

I don't think that's universally true, though it probably depends on 
distro and DM.

However...

> If you would like to affect the global environment of your KDE session, and 
> are not using a custom session, you can place files in ~/.kde/env.  Files 
> ending in ".sh" are read and executed in the same shell that is reading and 
> executing the startkde script.

...you will probably have better luck with this.

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Matthew
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