Try starting the xterm with the -ls option (think it was this option) that should start a boot-seesión who gets the environment variables from /etc/profile. The normal behavior is to start the xterm as child-process and it gets his PATH from some other file. luck
Lorenz von Krosigk SAP Consultant Tel. +34 93 402 81 57 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax +34 93 402 81 01 <http://www.gedas.es> gedas Iberia s.a. Zona Franca - Sector A Calle 2, nº 1 08040 Barcelona Spain -----Mensaje original----- De: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: lunes 11 de octubre de 1999 5:46 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: $PATH in X ? I was wondering what the best way to set the path globally in X. e.g. i compile kde apps by hand and they all go into /usr/local/kde/bin and no matter what i do i can't get that into my $PATH for X. its in my /etc/enviornment and /etc/profile and i added it to /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup but still it doesn't showup. I use a self compiled copy of afterstep as my WM. TIA nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
