problems with XFree

[Ralf Habacker]

> 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