Re: KDM + environment variables

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:52:17AM +0200, Børre Gaup wrote:
> duorastat, golggotmánu 2. b. 2003 17.41, Sebastian Seifert ??álii:
> > I want to be able to select different window managers from the login
> > prompt, so I cannot just set up an ~/.xsession file that sets the
> > variable and then starts kde.
> >
> Use a file called ~/.xsession, and set your variables there.
> 
*groan* ...

if you'd be using kdm's upstream Xsession, it would source ~/.profile
and additionally ~/.xprofile for x-specific settings.
but as debian has a somewhat strict policy, you are screwed. :-P
no, seriously: save this script as /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98private-sripts:

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readonly STARTUP   #so users cannot override the system policy

DM_PATH=$PATH
test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
test -f $HOME/.profile && . $HOME/.profile
IFS_SAVE=$IFS
IFS=:
for i in $PATH; do
    case :$DM_PATH: in
      *:$i:*) ;;
      ::) DM_PATH=$i;;
      *) DM_PATH=$DM_PATH:$i;;
    esac
done
IFS=$IFS_SAVE
PATH=$DM_PATH
export PATH

test -f /etc/xprofile && . /etc/xprofile
test -f $HOME/.xprofile && . $HOME/.xprofile
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the DM_PATH voodoo is there to merge the path kdm set with the one set
in .profile. if you consider this superflous (on a standard debian
installl it is ...), simply remove it.

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