* Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt> [20030227 18:16 PST]: > On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote: > > your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile > > is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login > > shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your > > environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in > > your .bash_profile. > > I think that is not the problem I'm facing: > > When I start kde through "startx" my konsole has the enviroment set up > properly. > When I start kde through kdm, the same console does not have the environment > set up. > > If I had the problem you talk about, I would face it either way, right? Nope. When you log in at the console, that's your login shell. Any sub-processes (including your entire X session) inherit the environment from the parent process, in which the variable has been set. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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