Re: [PATCH] gnome-session: user set environment variables on startup

[Tim O'Brien <timalot gmail com>]

Well that was a waste of patch, so gdm runs a script that execs
gnome-session and sometimes sources ~/.gnomerc. Should of read the
scripts....

Tim

On 8/21/05, Tim O <timalot gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch allows a user to add environment variables to
> gnome-session on startup which are then inherited by client programs.
> The environment variables are read from a gconf DB list at
> /apps/gnome-session/options/user_envrionment.
> 
> The reason for this is to allow things like having ~/bin in PATH for
> such things as the Run dialog. AFAIK there is no other way to achieve
> this through other login scripts.
> 
> If accepted I will add a tab to the gnome-session capplet to configure
> the list of variables.
> 
> The patch files are against CVS head.
> 
> 
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