Alt-F2 has unique $PATH?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/24 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
> I think it has to do with that ALF-F2 is not a login shell or an
> interactive shell so your shell config file (.bash_profile,
> .bash_login or .profile) is not sourced.
>
> I was looking briefly into .bash_profile and .profile as a answer for
> an other mail and as i understand it bash will not read .profile or
> .bash_login if you have a .bash_profile and in Ubuntu they use the
> .profile file. So your .profile will not be sourced and in that case
> your .bashrc will not be sourced either.
> You have to read up on the shell files, look under the INVOCATION
> section in the bash man page and perhaps on how KDM is loggin in a
> person and what config files it will read.
> Let us know if and how you solve it.
>
> / Jonas
>

Thanks, Jonas. Naturally I did google before posting. What I find
unusual is that the taskbar button follows the configured path. So if
one KDE element (the task bar) follows the configured path, why not
another (Alt-F2)?

Dotan Cohen

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