Am Freitag, 26. August 2011 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Kornel Benko wrote: > > At least some desktopts are starting, without reading "~/.profile" first. > > (If you start lyx through a shell-script, then of course you read > > .profile) > > I see. Then it just happens to work here (KDE 4.7, openSuse 11.4). > > Frankly, I never heard of the .pam_environment file before, but you are the > expert. > > Jürgen
Kde starts as "sh /usr/bin/startkde" or such, that may work. Since I am working
with "csh", I never created
.profile. My ".login" and ".cshrc" were ignored if started from desktop. It
took a while to discover .pam_environment file.
See "6.6.6 FILES, User specific environment file" in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html
Kornel
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