Request for help with kdm & environment variables

Martin Koller m.koller at surfeu.at
Thu Oct 9 21:05:47 BST 2003


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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?

Whai I do (on RedHat and on Suse) is to create a /etc/profile.d/xxx.csh
file to include the vars I want.

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Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin

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