Jack Ungerleider writes: > On Sunday 13 July 2003 9:17 pm, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > > I have been running Mandrake, and booting to run level 5. This gets > > me into KDE. I have a desktop icon that runs Xemacs. I've been > > disappointed to find that my ordinary shell environment (path, other > > environment variables, aliases), initiated by ~/.tcshrc, is not > > available to me when I start xemacs by clicking on this icon. I > > suspect this is the same no matter what program I run, if it's > > initiated graphically. What I was wondering is "how can I get my > > ordinary shell environment in place in the course of logging in > > through kdm (or other display manager)?" > > > > Thanks! > > R > > > > Note: I have not tried this so I don't now if it will do what you want. > > There is an option on KDE launchers to run the application in a terminal. As > long as KDE opens your default shell I to run the app it should load your > environment. The option is on the Execute tab of the icon properties. Thanks, Jack. But that's not /really/ what I want. I want /all/ the apps to get the right environment, rather than having to patch each individual launcher to get it. What I'd REALLY like is to force KDE to source ~/.tcshrc when it starts up. And I would have thought this is what most people would want (well, with some variation for /which/ .<foo>rc to run) --- how many people /don't/ want their paths consulted when dispatching to find binaries? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list