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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] Re: Kicker and environmental variables
From:       Jonathan Verner <jonathan.verner () matfyz ! cz>
Date:       2005-06-07 10:31:50
Message-ID: 200506071231.55544.jonathan.verner () matfyz ! cz
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Hi, 

try to create a small shell script which sets these in 
$HOME/.kde/env/ (and make it executable).

Jonathan

On Tuesday 07th June 2005 12:00 Sven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using MDK 10.1 with KDE 3.4.1 and am having an issue with starting
> application from kicker. I'm using SCIM
> to be able to write Japanese and one of the requirements to be able to
> do this properly is to have the variables:
>
> XMODIFIERS @im=SCIM
> GTK_IM_MODULE xim
> QT_IM_MODULE xim
>
> I currently have these configured in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>
> When I launch firefox from a shell, it works fine. But when I try to do
> it from kicker it doesn't start. I created
> a button on kicker that runs a shell and executes the command 'env |
> grep -i im' and all I see is:
>
> XMODIFIERS=@im=none
>
> So kicker seems to be ignoring the global environmental settings. Why is
> it not reading the variables that I have set.
> Is there any other place that I need to add them?
>
> Many thanks,
> Sven.

-- 
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex
facts.  Seek simplicity and distrust it.
		-- Whitehead.

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