Request for help with kdm & environment variables

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 09 October 2003 19:55, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to get my environment variables in effect
> in applications that run under KDE (on linux).  I use tcsh as my
> shell.
>
> So I made the following .xsession file, per the instructions in the
> KDE manuals:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/tcsh
>
> source ~/.tcshrc
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Unfortunately, this does not appear to have any effect, and the
> environment variables I setenv in ~/.tcshrc aren't available to
> applications started from the KDE menu.  There's nothing printed in
> .xsession-errors that shows anything going wrong.
>
> Any suggestions?

I am not sure if this works with tcsh as well, but I always modify the  
startkde script for that.
Might not be the best or cleanest way, but works :)

Cheers,
Kevin

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