On Thursday 20 February 2003 9:12 am, Vladimir Wiedermann wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have this problem, I would like to set up different path, than > > > standard and I want all applications and users to have this path > > > in it's enviroment. I made changes in /etc/profile > > > /etc/ligin.defs /etc/bash.bashrc but path in Kile is still the > > > same (doesn't contains my addons). Can anybody help me please? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Logging in via kdm? > > /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc > > I don't know what to change in kdmrc, but I changed also > /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup and Xstartup > and I still don't have good path. > > btw yes I'm logging via kdm, but I also want to know, where > is variable path generated for first time. > > -- > Vladimir Wiedermann
The startup shell that is invoked via kdm is not a login shell. You can read the man page for bash specifically under INVOCATION for more details. But in a nutshell, any changes you make to /etc/profile are not read if the shell is a non-login shell. One way of ensuring that the shell is started up as a login shell is to edit the file: /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession and change the first line from: #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash --login Now, I don't know if this is the preferred way of doing this, but it "worked for me." If there is a better way of doing this, I would certainly like to know so I don't spread wrong information. John
