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takluyver / nbopen

Open a Jupyter notebook in the best available server
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Closed vascotenner closed 8 years ago

vascotenner commented 8 years ago

Warning: This question might be not directly related to nbopen

When jupyter is launched by nbopen (launched by double clicking on a notebook in caja) , it does not have the pythonpath that I set in my bashrc, while bash is my "login terminal".

Any clue what is going wrong or how to debug or for what keywords to search for?

takluyver commented 8 years ago

Are you using nbopen at the command line, or with GUI integration? I suspect it's the latter.

bashrc is only run in a terminal, so environment variables set there don't affect programs launched from a GUI. On Linux, you can set environment variables in ~/.profile, which is run at login (at least for now, it looks like that might fail when distros switch to Wayland).

vascotenner commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the fuzz, I found the answer in the meantime here. It turned out that setting PATH and PYTHONPATH in .bashrc works almost always, but not for programs launched from the graphical environment. For some reason I did not stumble in to this issue the last 10 years of using *unix.