Re: Emacs and shell variables

[Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de>]

Dave Carrigan wrote:

[snip]

> It depends on what kind of session you choose to launch with gdm. It
> won't evaluate .environment. 

> However, if you launch the `Xsession' session, then it will launch
> .xsession. Take a look at the session scripts in /etc/gdm/Sessions,
> which should tell you which sessions evaluate which files.

> FWIW, gdm's `Xsession' session tries .xsession, and .Xclients if
> .xsession doesn't exist. Gdm's `Debian' session executes
> /etc/X11/Xsession, which also evaluates .xsession eventually. The
> `Gnome' session uses .gnomerc.

Thanks a lot for this information. Very appreciated! :-)

Greetings,

Stefan.

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