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

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Should I just call it $HOME/.kde/env/profile and include this:
> PATH="$HOME/.bin:$PATH"

"Files ending in ".sh" are read and executed..."
...so it would be 'profile.sh'.

Otherwise I think yes (but I haven't tried it).

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Matthew
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