Selecting things under 'X' using ENV variables

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Michael Marsh wrote:

> According to /usr/bin/sensible-browser, you can set the BROWSER
> environment variable for this.  In fact, you can specify a
> colon-separated list of browsers in this variable, and it'll take the
> first one it finds and that start successfully.
>
>  
This brings up a big question for me.
It appears that, when I login via XDM or GDM, the scripts "/etc/profile" 
and "~/.profile" are NOT run. Are there equivalent scripts for X / 
Gnome? and if so, what are they?

Thanks





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