Environemt for KDE programs started from the desktop icon

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On 1/19/08, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> On Friday 18 January 2008, Frank Bures wrote:
> > I am having a weird problem with KDE 3.5.4.
> >
> > I use modified .cshrc and .kshrc which I have been using on various
> > *NIXes for years.  If I open a Konsole and do 'locale' I get correct
> > values for all relevant variables in all shells (ksh, csh, bash).
> > If I run 'k3b' (compiled from source) in any of those shells I get no
> > complains.
> >
> > Now, if I open K3B by clicking on its Desktop icon, it complains about
> > unset locale variables, namely
> > "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968"
> >
> > There is no option to change the shell k3b is running in by right
> clicking
> > the icon and opening Properties.
> >
> > Question:  How can I path the correct environmental settings onto the
> > K3B icon?
>
> All programs launched through KDE, e.g. desktop icon, "run command",
> K-Menu,
> are executed in the environment KDE itself runs in, i.e. the environment
> the
> KDE start script "startkde" runs in.
>
> One of the usual causes for the observed difference is that the shell
> running
> startkde does not read the same shell configuration files since it is a
> login
> shell and non-interactive and shells often differentiate which files they
> read for different kinds of invocation.
>
> For example bash reads /etc/profile and its local equivalent when it is
> invoked as a login shell, but reads /etc/bash.bashrc and its local
> equivalent
> when run as an interactive shell, non-login, shell, so any environment
> customization in ~/.bashrc would be available in a Konsole window, but not
> for the KDE session itself.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin


So do you mean that variables written in /etc/profile could be available
in KDE environment itself?

Cheers,
Grissiom
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