[oclug] set $PATH

[Bruce Harding]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:12:53 -0400
Joe Burpee <jeb at burkby.com> wrote:
snip...

> If that's the case, it seems to me the appropriate thing is to fix
> what's broken, not add to the confusion (about shell initialization)
> with unnecessary workarounds.  And if you can't fix Xsession, it seems
> to me ~/.xsession is a second choice.

I was to original poster and I'm running Gentoo 1.4rc3

At present I don't use xdm,gdm,kdm etc, just startx.

The reason for my orginal post was... I use Midnight Commander a lot and
I wanted to be able to open files directly, but without having to use a
fix link.  Since Openoffice in Gentoo always creates a directory in /opt
that looks like "OpenOffice.org(the version number)" i.e.
OpenOffice.org1.0.3.  I wanted a why to do the PATH that I could replace
the version number with a Wild Card and thus not have to create new PATH
every time a new version came out.  


I hope that help clarify things.  

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Bruce Harding

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