Re: Bug#198887: emacs21: envvars not being inherited everywhere

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

"Jeff Sheinberg" <jeff@bsrd.net> writes:

> Here is my workaround, is goes into my ~/.xsession file, which is
> a #!/bin/sh script,
>
>     # Source profiles only if not yet done so.
>     if test "${ENV:-XXXX}" != "${env:-YYYY}" ; then
>         test -f     /etc/profile  &&  .      /etc/profile
>         test -f ${HOME}/.profile  &&  .  ${HOME}/.profile
>     fi

GNOME uses ~/.gnomerc (though I didn't realize it until I read the
relevant gdm script), and if you don't have a .gnomerc, it doesn't
(didn't?)  do what you expect with respect to shell config because it
takes actions after starting up the parent login shell that may
clobber your normal ~/.bash* (or whatever) config file settings.

However, it sources .gnomerc right before handing control over to your
session, so I do this in my ~/.gnomerc

  # This is ~/.gnomerc
  source ${HOME}/.bash_profile

and I arrange for my .bash_profile to handle everything else as usual.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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