[ale] no path when starting window manager

[James Sumners]

Are you using "export" to set your PATH variable in /etc/profile ?

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?


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