Running kde progs in current environment

[Nick Thompson]

Tony,

I am running systems with ClearCase and KDE using both Sparc/Solaris8 
and RedHat Linux. I have not seen this problem when simply launching 
programs from the command line within a view. I have had a problem using 
XEmacs in server mode when attaching new buffers to a XEmacs server 
started outside the view. In this case a wrote a script which may or may 
not be helpfull:

#!/bin/zsh
filename=$1

if [ ! -z "${CLEARCASE_ROOT}" ]; then
    if [ "${filename#/}" != "${filename}" ]; then
        filename="${CLEARCASE_ROOT}${filename}"
    else
        filename="${CLEARCASE_ROOT}`pwd`/${filename}"
    fi
fi

${EDITOR} ${filename}

This appends the view extended pathname on to the front of the file name 
when necassary, so the the full /view/<viewname>/vobs/... path is used 
to access the file by ${EDITOR}.

I though kdeinit processes where only forked if you used the wapper 
functions (kdeinit_wrapper, etc) to launch kde progs. In this case I can 
imagine that you would lose your environment. If you run programs 
directly they should keep the environment. At least they do here 
(KDE2.2.2). What OS are you using? IIRC Nortel use HP-UX? (I used to 
work at HAL03)

Nick.

Antony Gelberg [HAL02:HF30:EXCH] wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This came up with kdevelop, but it's appropriate to all kde programs.  We use 
>Clearcase for configuration management.  When I run any kde program from 
>within a Clearcase view shell, the program can't access any of the vobs 
>(clearcase databases).  I guess this is because a new kdeinit is spawned 
>which doesn't take settings from the current process?
>
>Can anyone give me a hand sorting this one out?  I can provide more info if 
>it's not clear what I'm going on about.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tony
>
>
>  
>

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