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Re: How to share env. variables ?



On 2005-10-21 11:06:33 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> >How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ?

If you start X11 with startx, then it will inherit the variable
values set for your shell.

> I asked that question a while ago.
> It appears e.g. that xterm uses /etc/profile and konsole does not.
> How to change that behavior?

xterm has no reason to read /etc/profile. The difference may be the
fact that with your configuration, xterm starts a login shell, but
not konsole.

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