PATH different in aterm & Eterm?

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cloud · Post by **cloud** » Mon May 27, 2002 5:58 am

Hi everyone!

I have a strange problem. I run fluxbox ontop of kde (or at the side, whatever

) and I cannot start kde apps from my menu in fluxbox. I think it has something to do with the PATH variable. But the thing is that the PATH has two different values if I look at it in aterm or in Eterm.
(Eterm PATH has the kde-bin path)

Is this normal?

Shouldn't the PATH be read from the /etc/profile.env file on startup?
(and thereby be system-wide?)

I'm a linux newbie as you probably understand, but I really want to learn how linux ticks...

Thanks for your time.
//mikke

jay · Post by **jay** » Mon May 27, 2002 5:51 pm

I haven't figured ot so far why fluxbox doesn't look into the kde bins, so I just added the complete path to the kde apps into the fluxbox menu (it's /usr/kde/3/bin/app-name )

--of course there should be a easier way to let fluxbox know where the kde apps reside....

cloud · Post by **cloud** » Tue May 28, 2002 10:06 am

Ok, I'll do that too.

Until this path thingy is figured out.

Thank you, jay.

//mikke

cloud · Post by **cloud** » Wed May 29, 2002 6:00 am

Ok, this is why I'm having problems.
See this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2414

//micke