Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Companion isn't aware of custom pythonpath(s)

[Marcus D. Leech]

> On 06/06/2013 02:54 PM, Arturo Rinaldi wrote:
> > I bumped into a strange issue in the past few days. When i launch GRC by
> > the desktop link generated, the program itself isn't aware of my custom
> > pythonpath set in the .bashrc settings file. I tried to modify the
> > desktop link also by checking the option to *launch the program in a
> > terminal* and putting into the blank space :
> >
> > /export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<my-custom-path>  \ gnuradio-companion/
> >
> > but without any results. I have never experienced this issue with the
> > past versions of gnuradio. I'm running Kubuntu 13.04 with gnuradio
> > 3.6.4.1. The only way it works is by making a script and launch it from
> > my desktop. No issues if i launch GRC from shell, after all the
> > pythonpath is embedded in the launched shell.
> >
> > thanks in advance for helping me.
> I can confirm that this is an issue. There may need to be a helper
> gnuradio-companion script that sets the env vars and then calls the
> actual python script. The gnuradio-grc.desktop would call this script
> instead. Not sure of a better way to do that.
>
> -josh
In Ubuntu, terminals aren't automatically "login" terminals, and so 
don't run your .bashrc, although for terminals at least, you can configure
  them to pretend to be "login" terminals, and thus run your .bashrc.


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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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