Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-04 Thread Sebastian Seifert
On Friday 03 October 2003 14:04, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Use a file called ~/.xsession, and set your variables there. That's what I had been doing until now (choosing "default" as my login type), but then I wanted to be able to change the wm upon login... > if you'd be using kdm's upstream

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-04 Thread Sebastian Seifert
On Friday 03 October 2003 06:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > ~/.kderc? Umm. Is there documentation for kderc somewhere? "man kderc" doesn't work. Google wasn't helpful either. I even browsed through the "KDE helpcenter". I guess some parts of KDE (another example: kdm!) suffer from a bad case of und

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-02 Thread Sebastian Seifert
On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:12, Antiphon wrote: > > I need to set a per-user environment variable that is set on login. > Have you tried ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc? Either doesn't work. As far as I can see, ~/.profile does not get executed at all (did you mean .bash_profile? or maybe it's a tcsh/

KDM + environment variables

2003-10-02 Thread Sebastian Seifert
Hello, I need to set a per-user environment variable that is set on login. How can I do that in a KDM/Debian-compatible way (i.e. without requiring root to do dirty things in /etc)? I'm using KDM for login. I want to be able to select different window managers from the login prompt, so I cannot j