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Subject: Re: What profile does Konsole use on startup
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On Friday 17 March 2006 21:07, Donald T Hayford wrote:
> When I run Konsole in KDE, it doesn't appear to be using my
> ~/.bash_profile as the startup file.  Does anybody know how to change
> this?  Or to tell what file it is using?  I looked in the Konsole help
> manual, but couldn't find any information.

I suspect your problem is with KDM, not Konsole.  When KDE gets started this 
way there is no proper login shell. There is a shell script that should 
source .bash_profile, but because it's running under sh, it doesn't 
understand the bash specific stuff. 

I did once experiment with a .bash_specific file that got sourced either in 
bash_profile, or .bashrc according to whether a BASH_ONCE variable had been 
exported. I think it worked, but I dont have it anymore.