Re: global environment variables?
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
| dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
|
| > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:30:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > | dman wrote:
| > |
| > | > What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for
| > | > apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell).
| > |
| > | What process starts the panel?
| >
| > gnome-session
| >
| > | Isn't there a login shell somewhere at the root of all the processes
| > | that get started for you at login time? I
| >
| > yes, ~/.xsession
|
| No, if you are running gdm and GNOME then it's ~/.gnomerc -- this is
| the right file for your personal setup like environment variables. But
Oh, ok. Is there any documentation on it? man doesn't find any. Is
it just an sh script?
| wait, there is an option in the gdm GUI menu to choose something other
| than a gnome session (which is the default), called 'Debian', which
| will let you use the .xsession file.
Yeah, I noticed that my .xsession wasn't being used when "Gnome" was
selected, but it is with "Xsession" selected.
-D
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