Apparently, _Michael B Allen_, on 07/09/04 04:50,typed:
Note a good way to setup the shell environment in X so you can run java and javac on the commandline is to start the session manager through a login shell by changing: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start to read: exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" People coming from RedHat will definately want to do this. Otherwise shells don't initialize their environment by sourcing /etc/profile and thus your exports will not be visible.
True .My gnome-terminal is able to see /etc/profile becuase I have made it to be a login shell. And when I ssh to the machine and open xterm, it doesn't know about /etc/ profile.
I will try what you mentioned, but I am also thinking about trying making a deb file.
thanks, ->HS