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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: FOUND IT !!!!!!!
From:       Melchior FRANZ <a8603365 () unet ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       2001-05-11 11:18:56
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* Oswald Buddenhagen -- Friday 11 May 2001 11:14:
> that's sort of a common misconception ... /etc/profile and ~/.profile
> are the bourne shell's startup files, not the xsession's ...

Yes, I know. But my /etc/passwd defines /bin/bash to be my preferred
shell and I expected the xsession to be started through a bash in which
case .profile would have been sourced.



> what, if
> your xsession is csh-based, not sh (or, more common, what if you use
> csh, so you don't have any startup files for sh)? 

Then I wouldn't have put my definitiones in ~/.profile and /etc/passwd
would mention /bin/csh.  :-)



> ways of doing it "right":
[...]

> ~/.xsession:
> #! /bin/sh
> if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
>   . /etc/profile
> fi

Ohh, yes. That's what SuSE has put into my ~/.xsession. Which makes me
again wonder, why KDEDIR could have been unset and have made the
help io-slave die expectedly.

m.
 
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