Bob Proulx wrote: > Simon L wrote: > > When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can > > "startx" and when I open a terminal, the PATH is perfect. > > Now, if I start the computer with KDM and that I run a terminal, the > > PATH is only: "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games" > By starting a login shell. Create ~/.xsession with the following: > > #!/bin/bash --login > exec x-session-manager # or gnome-session or whatever.
AAAARG! you can't be serious!! .xsession as a LOGIN shell?? repeat after me... X windows is not your shell! Simon, the reason you do not get your PATH set correctly is that if you login at a console, /etc/profile will be read because it is a login shell. starting X from there will inherit all your settings. if however, you login via kdm/gdm/xdm, it is NOT a login shell, so /etc/profile is not read. there are good reasons for this. if you do not agree with these good reasons, then you can simply add the line . /etc/profile to your ~/.xsession file. doing as Bob suggests and changing your X login to a login shell is NOT the way to solve this problem. the only reason his solution works is because in the process of making X a login shell, /etc/profile will be sourced. in his solution you will be seen to be logged in twice. > P.S. Does it seem like I answer this question about every other week? i hope you aren't giving this advise to everyone! cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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