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I have a new installation of Arch/KDE. I'm using KDM to login started with inittab (I couldn't make it work with systemd).
I installed oracle jre from AUR. It installs the file /etc/profile.d/jre.sh which exports jre path, but in konsole I am not able to run java or javac. However if I login in a tty the file is sourced correctly (I have jre binaries in PATH).
In konsole I'm using zsh, but the same occurs with bash.
Anyone experienced this?
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Basically, it depends on the files the particular shells read at start up and this differs for login versus non-login shells, for example. These files are sourced for me but I have tweaked config files which ensure that /etc/profile is always sourced. If you ensure that, it will all work because that file will source the fragments in profile.d.
For example, I use
if [ -f "/etc/profile" ]
then
[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
fi
in ~/.profile and
[[ -f ~/.profile ]] && . ~/.profile
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
in ~/.bash_profile.
Obviously you may prefer a different set up.
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@cfr, you know you can simply use
[[ -f /etc/profile ]] && . /etc/profile
instead of the if/then statement. It will work either way, but I use the one liner because it makes my .xinitrc look a little cleaner.
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Yes. But I probably didn't when I originally wrote this. My config files have sort of migrated with me from machine to machine so there are bits which reflect what I now know (and don't know) and bits which reflect what I knew some time back (and didn't know). And then there are bits which I've half-updated, commented out etc. etc.
Your statement wouldn't be equivalent to what I have although I admit that that would not matter here.
Anyway, apparently the relevant bit of my .bash_profile is newer than the relevant bit of my .profile...
My config files are a mess which I am some day going to have to untangle... (I can't remember when I last used tcsh as an actual shell - as opposed to a script which still uses it - but my sh, bash and tcsh environments are still being automatically synced. This is from when Apple switched the default shell in OS X to bash.)
EDIT: actually .profile must just be older than .bash_profile as it is all written like this.
Last edited by cfr (2012-10-13 23:00:44)
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I think the problem is related with KDM. In previous installations /etc/profile sourced automatically
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It didn't source that automatically for me if I had e.g. ~/.profile at all. Maybe you've added a config file and that's causing the change in behaviour?
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