Vittorio wrote: > I installed the tetex package from the texlive2003 DVD (the deb > tetex packages seem to have dependencies problems in my box) and tex > commands are located under /usr/local/TeX/bin, directory that I > added both to the PATH in /etc/profile and to ~/.bash_profile. Since you are installing this yourself into /usr/local I would create either wrapper scripts or symlinks from there to /usr/local/bin so that you don't need to do anything with PATH. > Now if a use xemacs in a shell, in a terminal window auctex is able to find > the latex and pdflatex commands. In a nutshell it all works correctly. How did you login to that shell window? (So that I know how .bash_profile was sourced.) What is PATH at that moment? > Instead if I use the application icon of xemacs on the kde desktop > it doesn't seem to be aware of the new path I set up, in a nutshell: > auctex is unable to start the applications latex and pdflatex in > /usr/local/TeX/bin. If the above was found on PATH in a terminal window then I would expect both to have found it on PATH. But I do think I know the problem. > How does it come? What should I do? The best way is to have user's .xsession files be login sessions. Assuming bash: #!/bin/bash --login exec x-session-manager # or startkde or fvwm or whatever Make sure it is executable or it will have no effect. chmod a+x $HOME/.xsession Then when you log in with kdm/gdm/xdm make sure you select "default" and not specifically KDE since selecting KDE avoids reading your environment files. Read /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/* for details of X startup especially 50xfree86-common_determine-startup and the option allow-user-xsession from /etc/X11/Xsession.options. Bob
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