On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:42 pm, Dirk Gajewski wrote: > How do I forward environment variables to kde program? > I am using ktexmaker2 and it does not see my TEXINPUTS > environment variable when I click a TeX file. When I start > ktexmaker2 from a shell it is fine but then I have to use the > open button to get to the file. Direct clicking is more convenient. > > Any ideas? > Dirk
I have sometimes had peculiar experiences like this, where an environment variable does not seem to be set outside of a terminal. I'm assuming you're using bash, if not, this probably won't help: Try "echo $TEXINPUTS" from a shell outside of X, I expect you will find it does not give any output. I think the difference is when you start a shell inside X it runs ~/.bashrc to set environment variables, whereas in the login shell it runs ~/.bash_profile - and environment variables inside X are the same as they are set from the shell X is started from. In shorts, try putting your "export TEXINPUTS=..." line into .bash_profile in your home directory (create it if it doesn't exist). Putting it in /etc/profile should have the same effect but set it for all users. Regards James
