Environment variables for your Plasma session

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I’ve been a bit stumped how to get Kate notice some of the environment variables I have.

Luckily, there’s a solution! Session Environment Variables - KDE UserBase Wiki

Just wanted to raise more awareness about this, since it’s a feature well worth using if you do a lot of development.

(Maybe this could use it’s own settings menu? :slight_smile: )

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#+begin_src sh
  #!/bin/sh
  # Time-stamp: " "

  # This file does nothing. It is a placeholder for display
  # in the KDE settings, as a mnemonic for the path.

  # LC_ALL=C systemsettings5 / "Startup and Shutdown" / "Autostart" / "Pre-startup Scripts"

  # ln -s $0  ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/
  # „Scripts are sourced“. See the description:
  # [[https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/startkde/startplasma.cpp#L258]]
#+end_src

:wink:

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Not a bad idea; could easily live in the Desktop Session KCM. It might make sense to create this to encourage users to set their environment variables there, and then it would also be a good place to see ones that were previously set so they aren’t forgotten forever and linger around, causing potential problems in the future.

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I could give it a try! :slight_smile:

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