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Re: Setting global env variables [was: Congrats! [gnome font rendering]]



Hi Andreas!

You wrote:

> > The situation is with Xprint, the X11 printing system provided by
> > xprt-xprintorg (or xprt, sort of).  Client programs such as mozilla require
> > environment variable XPSERVERLIST to be set to make use of it.  Now the
> > variable "belongs" to xprt*, but it's used by mozilla and others (if it's
> > not set, they just use the "normal" printing system).
> [...]
> 
> I think I wrote this to you before: Ship a small bash-scriplet
> (it'll be sourced, not executed) as
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75xprt-xprintorg_setenv that sets the
> environment-variable.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have something like /etc/environment.d/*
from which /etc/environment is created?

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