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Re: xdm and user's profiles



"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

But why does it work for LANG and not for EMAIL?
If both failed fine, if both worked even better, but this behaviour is 
strange.

May the Source be with you.
			Goswin


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