Re: global environment variables?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:56:19PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| dman wrote:
| 
| > I could try /etc/environment for myself, but I don't think it will
| > work.  Also I wanted to do this for just my user and let others stick
| > with the default $LANG.
| 
| Then the right thing to do is probably put code at the end of
| /etc/environment (which is sourced by the Gnome session script, so it
| can contain any Bourne-style shell code you want) like this:
| 
|   if [ -f $HOME/.environment ]; then
|       . $HOME/.environment
|   fi
| 
| This way, any user who wants to customize his login environment can
| simply create a file in his home directory called .environment, and put
| any shell code that he wants (probably mostly environment variable
| settings, hence the filename) in there. Users who don't care can simply
| not have the file.

You know, that's a good idea!  Maybe this should be the default?  If
it works out I'll talk to the maintainer.

-D

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