[ale] no path when starting window manager

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:37 am, James Sumners wrote:
> Are you using "export" to set your PATH variable in /etc/profile ?

No. The relevant lines are like this:

# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde/bin"

And that used to work until I did the latest install.


>
> On 6/3/05, Jim Philips <jimmyc at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > Normally, when I start any shell for any user on my machine, /opt/kde/bin
> > is included in the path. It's there in /etc/profile. But when I start a
> > new installation of KDE from kdm, it only opens an xterm. If I type
> > in /opt/kde/bin/startkde then the the window manager starts up, but only
> > then. If I type "echo $PATH" in that xterm, of course /opt/kde/bin is not
> > found. Any ideas why?