D. R. Evans via tde-users composed on 2024-11-06 07:30 (UTC-0700): ...

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.profile .bashrc

~/.bash_profile might be another to try. ...

Nope, neither of those works :-(

Try this clue: # grep envi tdmrc # Additional environment variables TDM should pass on to all programs it runs. #

Did you see Riley's response yesterday (~/.trinity/env/)?

Depending on your distro, e.g. Debian, possibly a custom script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/?

Anno domini 2024 Thu, 07 Nov 00:16:45 +0100 deloptes via tde-users scripsit:

D. R. Evans via tde-users wrote:

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I tried exporting the environment variable in ~/.profile, logged out, logged back in, and ran the relevant program from the menu; it behaved as if the environment variable was not set.

Did the same with ~/.bashrc, with the same result.

TDE as it was in KDE3 does not read the environment variables from the shell AFAIR.

I don't know about ~/.trinity/env/ although I have a shell script there from 2015 that sets some keycodes. Unfortunately I do not remember anything about it :/

Oh, there is another way: you can set environment variables in ~/.xsessionrc - that's what I use to do dirty startup stuff :)

Nik

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Riley Bell via tde-users wrote on 11/5/24 11:10:

You can make scripts in ~/.trinity/env to export environment variables. I agree there should be an easy to use UI though. I like how LXQt does it.

Yep, that did it. Thank you very much.

But really there ought to be a way to do this through the Trinity Control Centre. I know that the next time I need to do this, perhaps in five years' time, I'll have completely forgotten about your solution.

Doc

Anno domini 2024 Sat, 9 Nov 07:36:34 +0000 Brad Rogers via tde-users scripsit:

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 08:58:34 -0700 "D. R. Evans via tde-users" users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:

Hello D.,

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I know that the next time I need to do this, perhaps in five years' time, I'll have completely forgotten about your solution.

You've got a computer.

It's got a note taking application or document processor.

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Actually there is a native TDE application called "basket" that's quite good at it. If you like zim and get annoyed with it's GTK crippleware problems then you should give it a try :)

Nik

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