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RE: problems with XFree
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:44:16 +0200
- Subject: RE: problems with XFree
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> > Why not install a file in /etc/profile.d ?
> >
>
> Sylvain,
>
> I am not sure why we didn't use /etc/profile.d. I remember discussing
> it, but when I searched the mailing list archives using the search
> function at the top of the archive page, all I got was a bunch of spam
> messages that I don't recall ever seeing on the mailing list (at least
> not on the dates mentioned). I will have to do a google search for
> profile.d on our site, but I haven't got time now. If you could do the
> search and summarize where the thread left off, that would be great.
>
> I seem to remember that a profile.d would work for some cases, but it
> wouldn't work for all cases... but I cannot give a specific example
> (might be the archives as well).
For kde I'm using the following for xfree settings, so I could avoid xfree
setting in kde's profile.d script or /etc/profile. Perhaps this helps.
$ cat /etc/profile.d/xfree.sh
export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/X11R6/man
Ralf