From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 0:13:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC7A14E6B for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephenk@stephenk.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA08000 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:12:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip34-042.bur.primenet.com(207.218.34.42) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA5_a4Lp; Wed Sep 29 00:12:10 1999 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:52:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Krauth To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: .xsession path Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, probably an annoying FAQ, but this is something I've always wondered about - what is the right way to deal with the lack of a proper path when .xsession is executed? For example, if both .xinitrc and .xsession contain the same thing (in this example "exec startkde"), startx will work fine but xdm will bounce back to the login box because it can't find whatever is being executed. It seems pretty kludgy to modify $path in .xsession, but that seems to be the only way to make it work. Simply specifying a full path to startkde doesn't help because the support files fail to be found. The other thing I don't understand is why .xsession was created in this unusable state after installing KDE. Anyway, running 3.2-RELEASE, XFree86 3.3.5... - Steve K. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message