OK, this is what I found out. No plans on having KRunner recognize environment variables. I tried it with ~/some_elf and it worked though, so I will keep this as a wishlist item and follow along to see what happens.
** Changed in: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- [hardy] krunner is unable to run "$HOME/some_elf" or any command with an environment variable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193510 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs