[Kde-kiosk] Trouble w. KDEDIRS on KDE 3.4.3

[Martijn Klingens]

On Monday 24 October 2005 15:03, Erik Forsberg wrote:
> Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org> writes:
> > No, it's deprecated for profiles, but very valuable for debugging and as
> > such still exists and hopefully will remain even in KDE 4 and beyond.
>
> I hope so. What would the alternative be, if I want to select profile
> running as the "destination" user?

What exactly do you mean by that? Having a script run as the destination user 
to select the profile?

If so, you can use $KDEDIRS for that, but I recommend against it, as it's 
fairly trivial for a user to modify the environment and launch binaries with 
elevated privileges.

> > There could also be a /etc/kderc or similar overriding your $KDEDIRS.
> > What's the output of 'kde-config --prefix'?
>
> user200 at dhcp-254-169:~$ kde-config --prefix
> /usr

Looks ok, weird.

If you strace program startup, does it try to open files from your profile? 
Does it try to read $KDEDIRS at all?

-- 
Martijn