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

In <880dece00905081249s306ac01aia9372625cf642866@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dotan
Cohen wrote:
2009/5/8 James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx>:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
[T]his got me on my way:

$ cat .kde/env/profile.sh
PATH=$HOME/.bin:$PATH
export PATH
This will work for starting KDE, but you need to keep in mind that if
you do anything other than starting KDE with KDM that your $HOME/.bin
directory might not be added to your PATH.

While debugging startup/login scripts can be a real bitch, it would be
better to find out why your $HOME/.bash_profile script isn't modifying
your PATH as expected. It is best to do things correctly and the
.kde/env directory should be used only for things that are KDE specific.
How would one go about that? It might be a *buntu thing?

On Debian and openSUSE, the default Xsession for KDE is
/usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop,[1] which contains the line
"Exec=/usr/bin/startkde". This causes /usr/bin/startkde to be run to bring
up your X environment.

On both those systems, /usr/bin/startkde does not read ~/.bash_profile or
~/.profile. (Its she-bang line is "#!/bin/sh".) It is working as designed.
Ignore JRT, he's wrong, as usual. ;) :P j/k
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[1] For KDE 4 on openSUSE, it is currently /usr/share/xsessions/kde4.dekstop
that might be changing since KDE 3 won't be in 11.2, I think.

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