> I can't run selfcompiled programs stored in /usr/local/... from the > quickstart box (ALT+F2), however from a konsole, it works fine. > > Do they use different path environment variables? Or what is my problem? > yes, i think so. in konsole, your shell parses it's startup scripts and therefore has your specified path settings. kde runs directly from the x session and therefore doesn't know anything about your startup files. and no, this is NOT a bug in kdm. :) fixing this problem for path is fairly easy: add the right paths to the userPath variable in /etc/x11/kdm/kdm-config.
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