Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:

>>> I added the following lines to /etc/profile:
>>>
>>> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>>> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
>>> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim


Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in /etc/profile?
>> I mean, if I put that in /etc/profile, those commands are run at every boot,
>> wheraes I want to run them at my pleasure.  If I simply give them from
>> command line:
>>
>>  # export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>>  # export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
>>  # export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
>>
>> they don't seem to take any effect.


Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> writes:


> What is it you're actually trying to do? Those environment variables should
> be set for the shell you typed that into, and any child processes. They won't
> be set globally because, as far as I know, there's no way to set the
> environment for a parent process. This means that if you're opening up an
> xterm or whatever and entering those variables then they will take effect for
> anything started from that xterm, but not for anything else. To have them set
> across the board you would need them set earlier - like in /etc/profile as
> you've discovered, or your user's config files.


All right, that answers my question, thanks.  Now, I put those lines in a
script:

#!/bin/bash
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

, made it executable with `chmod 755' but it doesn't seem to work.  Why?

Thanks again
Rodolfo