Index: lxqt-session/src/lxqtmodman.cpp
--- lxqt-session/src/lxqtmodman.cpp.orig
+++ lxqt-session/src/lxqtmodman.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
  *
  * END_COMMON_COPYRIGHT_HEADER */
 
+#if defined(__OpenBSD__)
+#define NO_WORDEXP
+#endif
+
 #include "lxqtmodman.h"
 #include <LXQt/Globals>
 #include <LXQt/Settings>
@@ -43,7 +47,11 @@
 #include <QDateTime>
 #include "wmselectdialog.h"
 #include "windowmanager.h"
+#ifdef NO_WORDEXP
+#include <glob.h>
+#else
 #include <wordexp.h>
+#endif
 #include "log.h"
 
 #include <KWindowSystem/KWindowSystem>
@@ -429,6 +437,22 @@ bool LXQtModuleManager::nativeEventFilter(const QByteA
 
 void lxqt_setenv(const char *env, const QByteArray &value)
 {
+    #ifdef NO_WORDEXP
+    glob_t p;
+    glob(value.constData(), 0, NULL, &p);
+    if (p.gl_pathc == 1)
+    {
+
+        qCDebug(SESSION) << "Environment variable" << env << "=" << p.gl_pathv[0];
+        qputenv(env, p.gl_pathv[0]);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        qCWarning(SESSION) << "Error expanding environment variable" << env << "=" << value;
+        qputenv(env, value);
+    }
+    globfree(&p);
+    #else
     wordexp_t p;
     wordexp(value.constData(), &p, 0);
     if (p.we_wordc == 1)
@@ -443,6 +467,7 @@ void lxqt_setenv(const char *env, const QByteArray &va
         qputenv(env, value);
     }
      wordfree(&p);
+    #endif
 }
 
 void lxqt_setenv_prepend(const char *env, const QByteArray &value, const QByteArray &separator)