Alejandro Salas wrote: > Here's my problem, > I just installed Debian Sarge and enlightenment using > aptitude. > In my .bash_profile I add to the PATH a couple of > apps, but enlightenment is running on a different > environment, so my .bash_profile actions have no > effect. > That hasn't happened to me before, it's more or less > the same .bash_profile I was using in my prior > installation (Fedora Core 3), and I never had any > problems. I tried setting the correct PATH in > /etc/profile, but that didn't work either. > > Does anyone knows a solution?? > This is not an e problem but probably a problem with your session manager setup. AFAIK GDM and KDM don't necessarily source /etc/profile and they don't under normal circumstances use ~/.bash* as these are the bash initialization files. The whole thing is a bit of a mess in linux IMO, because there is just too many of these configuration files and it is hard to keep track. I had an URL which goes into depth about all this, if you're interested I can try to find it. The easiest solution IMO is to find which initialization file your session manager uses and source /etc/profile from it(just put . /etc/profile somewhere at the top), that way you only have to worry about /etc/profile for doing changes. If you want to allow user to change the PATH variable etc. you could source ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile when starting the xsession. GDM et al have configuration options to tell them what to do when starting the xsession. Maybe putting . ~/.bash_profile in your home .xsession file works, im not to sure about this though. HTH Jochen
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