[kde-linux] $HOME/.bash_profile is not sourced when starting with KDM
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Thu Feb 26 08:11:04 GMT 2004
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
>> Brian Monroe wrote:
>>
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>>> It was foretold that on Sunday 22 February 2004 12:53, James Richard
>>> Tyrer would write:
>>>
>>>> If you installed from source on Linux, you probably have this problem.
>>>>
>>>> Your "$HOME/.bash_profile" script is not sourced (executed) when you
>>>> start
>>>> KDE with KDM.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for this is that the Xsession file does not source it. It
>>>> contains the line:
>>>>
>>>> $HOME/.profile
>>>>
>>>> This needs to be changed to:
>>>>
>>>> $HOME/.bash_profile
>>>>
>>>> There is a bug on this which was closed as invalid.
>>>>
>>>> I have reopened it:
>>>>
>>>> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53345
>>>>
>>>> Note: this only applies if you built from source.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Would a symbolic link to the bash profile also work?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, it should.
>
>
> Perhaps I should amplify this.
>
> Yes, it should *IF*. Yes the big *IF*. :-)
>
> Newbies may get tripped up on this. If you run the: "Xsession" script
> as Shell and it sources your: "/etc/profile" & "~/.bash_profile" scripts
> you WILL have problems if the scripts contains Bash syntax extensions
> (and if you have modified them, they probably will since the: "if - then
> - else" syntax is a Bash extension) you should also change the first
> line of the "Xsession" script:
>
> #! /bin/bash
OR perhaps it doesn't really matter as long as you are using Bash.
--
JRT
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