Re: Ideal place to set environment variables
On 20/03/18 07:59, Subhadip Ghosh wrote:
While it was very informative, it was not evident from it that what
the standard or preferred place is for setting an environment variable
if I want it to be available from both graphical applications as well as
from terminal (bash).
Under XFCE, I have ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc something like this:
#!/bin/sh
export LC_COLLATE=C
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
umask 007
. /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
Graphical applications (including xfce4-teminal) and its child bash
inherit these exported environment variables from their parent. (And
note that I assume $PATH and $HOME do not require quoting.)
The file is a script so it must be executable:
chmod 700 ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc
Kind regards,
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand
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