[kde-linux] konsole PATH and LDLIB settings

[Rod Butcher]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 13:51 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:32 +0300, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 15:44:51 Rod Butcher wrote:
> > > I want to have differen t versions of konsole that I can run with
> > > different environment variables e.g. I want one konsole to run with PATH
> > > and LD_LIBRARY_PATH = abcdef and another with PATH=vwxyz.
> > >
> > > I can get kon sole to load with other environmental varaiables preset
> > > (e.g. MACHTYPE) by using a wrapper script to execute the different
> > > versions of konsole i.e. export shell variables and then load konsole.
> > > But konsole always takes PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH from my login
> > > defaults.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It is not konsole itself that loads the variables from your profile. It is the 
> > shell that console executes (probably bash). When started the shell executes 
> > its initialization scripts (.profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, see man page of 
> > bash for details on order and difference). If you wish to have different 
> > variables set for different konsole sessions you could create several 
> > initialization files and then set konsole's session (Configure Konsole -> 
> > Sessions -> Execute) to execute the command 'bash --rcfile .my_init_file1'. 
> > See the INVOCATION section in bash manual for details on other options of 
> > invocation.
> I tried setting Execute within console as you suggest i.e. Session ->
> Execute -> bash --rcfile foo (foo contains export PATH= etc.). But foo
> seems to be ignored.
> However.. if I execute bash --rcfile foo from within konsole, then it
> works OK i.e. I get a nested bash session with whatever values are set
> in foo.
> So how on earth do I get konsole to execure bash --rcfile foo ?
D'uh... as usual I pressed send before engaging brain. If I setup a new
konsole session name foo with bash --rcfile foo option and then  execure
konsole --type foo I get what I want.
thanks for the pointers
Rod
> thanks
> Rod
> But if 
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > 
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