On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:16:16 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, >what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile >(including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an "export >PATH"-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and >2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I >logged in to another windowmanager, but there it works. Any ideas how to >correct kde's behaviour?
/etc/profile is a file read by BASH when it is started by after a logon. ~/.bash_profile is your local equivalent ~/.bashrc is what happens when bash gets started regardless of whether it is a login shell. Since you are starting bits of kde, then bash doesn't run and doesn't change the path (I think, but I am not sure, from default set by init??). I am not sure where the prefered place is in that case, I would suspect you should look at /etc/X11/Xsession script (this just runs all the scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d after setting up a few parameters) You do of course start bash when you call up konsole (or an xterm for that matter) but not as as a login (unless you set the options on xterm to tell it to treat it like one), so only ~/.bashrc gets run. You could put PATH statements in there. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com