Re: setting up environment variables

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 09:07, wrote:
> Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> writes:
>
>
> > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in 
> > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
>
>
> Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
> similar program?
>
> I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile) read
> when logging in via [gkx]dm, but gave up long ago.  Now I use startx...

I only tried it with startx from a cmd line. Thanks for the info. But I 
can't think where else you would set it up.


Adam