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  • Re: qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

    From Greg Wooledge@21:1/5 to Max Nikulin on Wed Oct 9 05:10:01 2024
    On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:52:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
    On 09/10/2024 07:38, eben@gmx.us wrote:

    Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being set.  Which means something is running a not-login shell, something between startx and xfwm.  It's defined in ~/.profile.  Any ideas?

    <https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables>
    But...

    - "Qt5ct will only be active on environments other than Plasma."
    Sounds like it should be enabled by default (I do not have it installed)
    - startx means that ~/.profile should be applied.

    Assuming their login shell is bash, ksh, dash, etc.

    If there's any doubt about which dot files are being used, you can add
    some logging to each one. For example, stick something like this at
    the top of ~/.profile:

    echo ".profile read at $(date)" >> ~/.cache/dotfiles.log

    and then this at the top of ~/.bashrc:

    echo ".bashrc read at $(date)" >> ~/.cache/dotfiles.log

    and so on, for each dot file you want to track.

    Also, the *absence* of an environment variable in a leaf process doesn't necessarily mean the variable was never set in any of its parents.
    There could be something that scrubs the environment along the way.

    Or, the leaf process in question might be derived from dbus instead of
    from the login session, in which case you're looking at the wrong
    ancestry.

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