Re: Emacs and shell variables
Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> writes:
[snip]
> > gdm, but without the rest of GNOME, only gdm.
> gdm won't evaluate your .bashrc to set the environment variables. The
> idomatic solution is to create a ~/.environment file where you set all
> of your environment variables, then each of your other .rc files
> (.bashrc, .gnomerc, .xsession, etc.) source that file.
I know very little of the login process. Does gdm evaluate the
~/.environment file? Or the ~/.xsession file? If neither, then the
above solution doesn't give me any advantage. If it does evaluate one,
then yes, this is clearly the way to go.
Greetings,
Stefan.
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