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Re: Running Netscape Communicator



W Paul Mills writes:

> Remember though that if starting X with xdm, your environment
> variables may not be known to your session. I source my
> .bash_profile in my .xsession file. This solves various path and
> environment variable problems for a number of programs.

It is worth noting that the standard debian /etc/X11/Xsession script
will source /etc/environment if it exists.  If you symlink that to
/etc/profile, you can guarantee a proper environment even for users
who do not have their own ~/.xsession file.

-- 
Olaf Weber


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