Re: Howto set environment variables in Gnome?

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

Olle Eriksson on 16/10/05 14:25, wrote:
> On Friday 14 October 2005 08.18, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the approriate place to set environmental variables in Gnome,
> > both system wide (e.g. for all users) and per user?
>
>
> How about putting them in /etc/profile for system-wide variables and 
> ~/.bash_profile for user specific variables?
>
> Otherwise try this:
> http://www.google.se/search?q=environment+variables+in+gnome

Search the archives of this list as well, this topic was discussed a 
couple of months back.

if my memory serves me well, .profile does not provide the environment 
setup if you login via xdm or gdm.

If I am wrong, it is probably because there is some other config file as 
well as .profile, rather than just .profile. But I do recall someone 
saying that .profile is only for cmd line environments.



Adam