Re: Environment variables and X
hey.. i don't know much about this, but i do know if you open most kind of
terminals in x with the argument -ls (or sometimes -ln, depending on what
you use) it forces the reading of the current user's .bash_profile or
.bashrc. not sure where you'd set it otherwise... might try /etc/profile,
although outside of x a user's own .bash_profile will override these global
settings. just some thoughts...
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----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Mongeon <Mongeon@bankoe.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Environment variables and X
> Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on
> startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that
> file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both:
>
> . $HOME/.profile
>
> Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make
> sure you export it:
>
> export HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy
>
> Sorry, I don't have wdm installed and I couldn't find an on-line
> man page for it, so I can't give you the name of the wdm profile.
>
> Marc
>
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>
> >>> Arcady Genkin <genkin@sympatico.ca> 05/21 1:30 AM >>>
> Hi all:
>
> Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they
> would propagate to X apps?
>
> I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that
> neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm
> using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not from an xterm).
>
> Thanks!
>
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