Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:01:45AM +0200, Sebastian Seifert wrote: > > if you'd be using kdm's upstream Xsession, it would source ~/.profile > > and additionally ~/.xprofile for x-specific settings. > > but as debian has a somewhat strict policy, you are screwed. :-P > > no, seriously: save this sc

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

2003-10-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:52:17AM +0200, Børre Gaup wrote: > duorastat, golggotmánu 2. b. 2003 17.41, Sebastian Seifert ??álii: > > I want to be able to select different window managers from the login > > prompt, so I cannot just set up an ~/.xsession file that sets the > > variable and then start

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-03 Thread Bob Hauck
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Sebastian Seifert wrote: > > 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 >

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-03 Thread BÃrre Gaup
duorastat, golggotmÃnu 2. b. 2003 17.41, Sebastian Seifert ÄÃlii: > 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

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Sebastian Seifert wrote: > 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/ksh/... specific file), while .bashrc is only e

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/

Re: KDM + environment variables

2003-10-02 Thread Antiphon
Have you tried ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc? On October 02, 2003 11:41 am, Sebastian Seifert wrote: > 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 usi

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