Re: Emacs and shell variables
Richard Cobbe wrote:
[snip]
> I would think that you'd want the environment variables to be visible
> to your entire X session, including FVWM and all of the programs it
> starts.
Hm, haven't thought of that yet.
> How are you starting X? Are you running one of the display managers
> like xdm, or do you run startx?
gdm, but without the rest of GNOME, only gdm.
> Your .bashrc is only read for interactive shells, not scripts or
> anything else.
Yes, I've found this in the man page of bash this morning and now I
start my emacs with
bash -i -c emacs
which works. :-)
> Does moving the environment settings into .bash_login or
> .bash_profile work? See bash's manpage for details about when it
> reads each of the various configuration files.
I'll try this as well, thanks.
Greetings,
Stefan.
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