[Konsole-devel] problem with initial konsole path setting

[Kurt V. Hindenburg]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:18, Dave Feustel wrote:
| I just upgraded to KDE 3.3.2 and Konsole 1.4.2 and
| the default path seems to have been changed from
| KDE 3.2.3. I fixed the problem for the initial konsole
| by changing the konsole icon command to a login
| (ksh) shell (konsole -e ksh -ls"). But additional tabbed
| shells are started as non-login shells and my .profile
| is not automatically executed. I have to do a
| ". /home/daf/.profile" to get the environment for
| the tabbed shells properly initialized.
|
| I should add that one other change to my system is
| that I started using xdm to provide a graphical login.
| I tried to use kdm, but I could not succeed in logging
| in with kdm (did I mention that I'm running OpenBSD? :-) )
| It looks like the problem with kdm is that it does not
| recognize BSD-style authorization. I get KDE started up from
| my xsession file. This may impact my initial path but
| I have not yet figured out how yet.
|
| The path problem also shows up when I start kword
| by clicking on the kword icon in the task panel.
| Everything seems to work until I try to print. Then
| the print process reports it can't find /usr/local/bin/lpr.
| When I start kword from a konsole session started as
| a login shell, kword printing works as expected.
|
| So how do I get the initial path used by KDE to be the
| path I specify in my profile?
|
This is not really Konsole related.  You would have a better chance of getting 
an answer on a kde user mailing list.

http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/
Since you are on a non-linux, you might try the kde-nonlinux ml.

  Regards,
     Kurt