On Tuesday, 2011-02-01, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:24, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> wrote: > > That never worked because e.g. .bash_profile is only read by interactive > > shells (see man bash) and the shell running /usr/bin/startkde is not > > interactive. > > Of course, .bash_profile is for bash as the name implies. But what > about .profile? Would it not make sense for KDE to respect that? KDE is started through a script called startkde. This is executed by a shell interpreter, whatever /bin/sh points to. This shell might not read .profile, bash for example only does this for interactive login shells. Nothing KDE can do about that. > > Some people might have had /bin/bash symlinked to /bin/sh and .bashrc > > sourcing .bash_profile but of course this is just working around the way > > that shell works. > > > > Usually distributions have some way of setting environment variables that > > should always be present regardless of the type of login (local vs. from > > remote, X vs. virtual console). > > That's .profile, no? On Debian there is /etc/environment but I believe that has been surpassed by a PAM module for modifying the environment. Use of /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile depends on the shell symlinked for /bin/sh > > Xinit is a way to do that only for X11 based sessions, but again > > regardless of workspace environment being used. > > > > For KDE one can additional use KDE's environment extender mechanims, i.e. > > putting a file (with .sh extension) into $HOME/.kde/env > > Do you know the syntax? It is not the bash syntax. Thanks. Somthing like this: export PATH=$HOME/.bin:$PATH Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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