Bug#644566: texmaker executable of amd64.deb 'is not aware' of user's environment variables

[David Pirotte]

Hi David

>> ...
> I'm not sure if it is possible to fix this in the .desktop file. It is
> conceivable setting 'Terminal=true' in
> /usr/share/applications/texmaker.desktop would help, at the expense of
> spawning an extra terminal.

No it does not help: I did try that before my first email and it didn't work either.
It only works if I manually open a terminal and manual enter texmaker: then texmaker
is a child of the user's environment shell.

> I suspect the solution is to make sure the appropriate environment
> variables are set in your xfce or gnome environment. ...

Well, I don't know David, but to me it does not make sense: and beside, I am not
willing to have to manually change all .config/.. of the users of this lab

You maybe right saying that it is a desktop env problem on 64bits machines, but
neither gnome neither xfce4, would it not be too much of a coincidence ? And as you
said, why would it work on 32bits machines? I'll try to see if I can find more info,
but I don't even know how to start and where to look ?

Right now I created a local 'texmaker' script which does

	. ~/.bashrc;/usr/bin/texmaker

then it works and I don't have to digg in anybody's environment config variables.

Cheers,
David