Hi all,

Trying to set up a little OpenCV demo for our open door at work, so I wanted to launch a bunch of scripts from the desktop. Tried adding them to the start menu, didn't work. Set 'Run in terminal' with the option --noclose, and then I saw that obviously some paths were missing. Apparently the shell starts without running .bashrc, so none of the environment variables are set (checked this). Clicking the script in dolphin or a folder view: same problem.
If I just start up a terminal and run the script from the command line, it works no problem. What am I missing here?

Running Kubuntu 11.10 with kde 4.7.

Does the script in question have a Shebang which invokes a Bash shell interpreter? It could be using /bin/sh - which if i'm not wrong is dash under Kubuntu.

bcooksley wrote:Does the script in question have a Shebang which invokes a Bash shell interpreter? It could be using /bin/sh - which if i'm not wrong is dash under Kubuntu.

Script starts with #!/bin/bash, yes. I tried changing it with
#!/bin/bash -rcfile /home/me/.bashrc
but it wasn't allowed.

Putting all of the env variables into the script itself worked, though it's obviously not the most elegant solution.

If you add the following at the top of the script (just below the shebang), does it work?

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source ~/.bashrc