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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:19:36PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0300, David Pirotte <david at altosw.be> wrote:
> > 
> > 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 ?
> 
> I tried TeXmaker on an i386 installation of sid, with xfce4, and it
> worked as follows: starting from the menu, TEXINPUTS environment
> variable from my login shell is not detected.  Starting from the
> terminal, it (unsurprisingly) is. I can only suggest you try creating a
> test user with no customization and try it from there.

IMHO whe should try a program which can verify environment variables
somehow if it is the same destinction between starting by menu and
starting from a terminal. 

May be opening a shell out of Emacs and inspecting the environment might
be a first approach (even if I assume that if opening a shell from Emacs
you .bashrc / .profile is properly executed).  I really doubt that this
is any TeXMaker issue but rather a problem of the environment.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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