Kurt Sholly wrote: > Do you know how to get off of this email list?????? > > Have you ever read the footer at the bottom of every post? > > Dotan Cohen > <dotancohen@gmail > .com> To > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx > 10/27/2009 09:26 cc > AM > Subject > Re: Konsole in English > Please respond to > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > >> You appear to have snipped out: >> >> "Second, if you do so (either way), it will affect the whole KDE session >> for that user." >> >> That is why it won't work (or might not work). But, it doesn't explain >> why that is (or might be) true. >> >> If you read the 'Fine Man Page', >> >> "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a >> non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and >> executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After >> reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and >> ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the >> first one that exists and is readable." >> >> "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash >> reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." >> >> You would think that it should work. However, it is also common >> practice for ".bash_profile" to change that. >> >> Fedora 10 "/etc/skel/.bash_profile" (the default): >> >> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ >> >> # .bash_profile >> >> # Get the aliases and functions >> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then >> . ~/.bashrc >> fi >> >> # User specific environment and startup programs >> >> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin >> >> export PATH >> >> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ >> >> It is this that would make it not work. Now it is possible that your >> distro doesn't have the code that sources ".bashrc" from >> ".bash_profile", but I don't like to suggest that people should make >> such changes to their distros. The script will work for everyone, and >> it is really the better way to do it since changing environment >> variables in ".bashrc" can cause problems whether or not your distro >> does this. >> >> > > I have had lots of problems when fiddling with the language settings > in the dofiles, the effects seem to appear in places that I did not > expect them (like Thunderbird). So I am glad for this Konsole-specific > solution. > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > -- Treat all stressful situations like a dog does. If you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away Sent with Thunderbird on my Kubuntu Linux Desktop ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.