Stefan Endrullis schrieb:
> kb9vqf@... schrieb:
>>> Hm, very interesting: env looks different in all consoles that start
>>> automatically with KDE, e.g. yakuake and consoles from the
>>> last session. In these consoles KDEDIRS is set to "/usr/:/opt/kde3/". But
>>> when I start a new console via alt+f2, then KDEDIRS is
>>> set to "/usr/" and the console looks even different (other background
>>> color). How can that be?
>>>
>>> Well, in both consoles PATH does not include /opt/kde/bin. :(
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stefan
>>>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Sorry, I'm stumped on this one.  I've never had a problem like that before
>> on any of my machines; the only suggestion I have is if you have another
>> startkde on your system, try renaming it temporarily and see if the
>> problem is fixed (though I don't see how the new startkde could even start
>> KDE3.5 at all).
>>
>> Odd.
>>
>> Tim
>>
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I have renamed the other startkde and restarted KDE3, but it's still the same.
> BTW, /usr/share/xsessions/kde3.desktop looks fine. It links to /opt/kde3/bin/startkde
> and is the only desktop labeled "KDE3" (that I have chosen). Thus it's not a
> problem of starting the wrong startkde script.
> 
> OK, maybe I should purge KDE3 and reinstall it.
> 
> Regards,
> Stefan
> 

Thanks for your help!

Finally, I found the reason for this problem and it had nothing to do with KDE3: The problem was just caused by the my /etc/zsh/zshenv which
reset the PATH variable.

I've removed these lines and everything works now. :)

BTW: I'm not using the original zsh configuration files. Thus the zsh packages of ubuntu might be fine.

Stefan