On Sunday 13 July 2003 9:17 pm, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > I have been running Mandrake, and booting to run level 5. This gets > me into KDE. I have a desktop icon that runs Xemacs. I've been > disappointed to find that my ordinary shell environment (path, other > environment variables, aliases), initiated by ~/.tcshrc, is not > available to me when I start xemacs by clicking on this icon. I > suspect this is the same no matter what program I run, if it's > initiated graphically. What I was wondering is "how can I get my > ordinary shell environment in place in the course of logging in > through kdm (or other display manager)?" > > Thanks! > R > Note: I have not tried this so I don't now if it will do what you want. There is an option on KDE launchers to run the application in a terminal. As long as KDE opens your default shell I to run the app it should load your environment. The option is on the Execute tab of the icon properties. Good Luck! -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list