Getting privately compiled KDE modules working in full KDE session

[Duncan]

Chris Jones posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:32:20 +0000 as excerpted:

> Hi,
> 
> I've running KDE 3.5.4 on SLC5. I have privately built kdesvn and
> installed it in a custom location (/usera/jonesc/usr/local).
> 
> I've tried defining
> 
> export KDEDIRS="/usr:/usera/jonesc/usr/local" export
> PATH="/usera/jonesc/usr/local/bin:"$PATH export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usera/jonesc/usr/local/lib64"
> 
> and if I ssh into the machine in question and start konqueror, then I
> can see the kdesvn view plugin is available.
> 
> However, if I start a full KDE X session on the machine, then my private
> kdesvn plugin is not available. I've added the above export lines to all
> .XYZ files I can think might effect the login environment, but none have
> helped (.profile, .login, .xsession etc. etc.)

You didn't mention your .bashrc (or whatever, if you're running a shell 
other than bash).  .profile and etc run when you're starting a login 
session. .bashrc and etc run otherwise.  That it runs when you ssh in sort 
of confirms that, as that'd be a login, thus running the login scripts.  
See the bash info pages or manpage for more on that.  But I'm not sure 
that'd do it (unless you started it from a konsole window.)
 
> Has anyone done anything similar, and has advice on how to get the
> private KDEDIRS working in a full X session ? I'm probably jsut not
> setting the environment variables in the right file, or in the right way
> ...

You don't mention whether you're logging in at the text terminal and 
running startx, or whether you're running a *DM (KDM, GDM, XDM, etc) 
graphical login.  Years ago back on Mandrake, I had problems with the *DM 
at some point, and switched entirely to the text shell login and startx 
method.  I've used it since.

Since I startx from a bash session, it was a small step from that to 
setting up a script that setup various environmental variables for me 
before invoking startx.  In fact, I started by simply setting the XSESSION 
variable to kde-3.3 or whatever it was back then, and the script grew a 
bit over the years, changing the path, exporting KDEDIR, KDETMP, 
KDEVARTMP, etc, running a kbuildsycoca, that sort of stuff, before running 
startx and the associated KDE session.  Since that's all setup in the 
environment before X and KDE starts, it simply inherits from the existing 
environment.

But as I gave up on *DMs many years ago, I don't have the foggiest how 
that sort of stuff is handled with them, except that I'm sure there must 
be arrangements for doing it; I just don't know what they are.  If I were 
to set a *DM up, I'd certainly be checking the documentation to see how 
all that worked, and setting up my config files accordingly.

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