Re: xdm and user's profiles
Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> Not true. I cannot get /etc/environment values to be set when I use xdm to
>> log into X. I have not tried via startx, but I presume that will work.
>>
>> I may have futzed, and gotten the format wrong, if someone would enlighten
>> me, I'd be appreciative.
>
>------------------------- /etc/enviroment ----------------------------------
>LANG=C
>EMAIL="goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de"
>------------------------------ xterm ---------------------------------------
>
># echo $LANG
>C
># echo $EMAIL
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It needs to be exported.
Use set -a, or export particular variables in Xsession.
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