Re: change an environment variable in a running gnome session



On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:18 -0300, Fabio Rafael da Rosa wrote:
> I dont know if this is possible, but I wan't to change
> an environment variable in a gnome session, so the change
> became visible to gnome without having to restart the
> gnome session. Is this possible?

Short answer:  You can't.  Unix doesn't have a way to propagate changes
in environment variables.

Long answer: what exactly are you trying to do?  There may be a way
within GNOME to do it.

  Federico






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