Hi David, Andreas > > I tried TeXmaker on an i386 installation of sid, with xfce4, and it > > worked as follows: starting from the menu, TEXINPUTS environment > > variable from my login shell is not detected. Starting from the > > terminal, it (unsurprisingly) is.
Yes, here on 32bits machines it works with no problem too. > I can only suggest you try creating a test user with no customization and try > it > from there. Here, it works for all users on 32bits and none on 64bits > IMHO whe should try a program which can verify environment variables > somehow if it is the same destinction between starting by menu and > starting from a terminal. Yes, that's what I sugessted in my frst emails too: could you kindly send a piece of C code which echo/write TEXINPUTS ina /tmp/texinputs.test.txt [not to interact with terminals at all] ? [I am asking because so far I only programed in scheme, and have almost no C knowledge at all :)] I will compile it here using gcc and create a launcher ... That would be nice: then, what debian package should I report this bug ? there are hundreds of gnome/xfce4 packages ... I have no clue which one is 'the' one :) any idea ? > May be opening a shell out of Emacs and inspecting the environment might > be a first approach (even if I assume that if opening a shell from Emacs > you .bashrc / .profile is properly executed). I really doubt that this > is any TeXMaker issue but rather a problem of the environment. Opening a shell in emacs is not different from opening a terminal: as you know, independently from any desktop 'system', it triggers the execution of the user's shell, which itself will load default and personal blabla :) Many thanks for you help, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org