Re: change an environment variable in a running gnome session
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: Fabio Rafael da Rosa <rafael f2r gmail com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: change an environment variable in a running gnome session
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:29:13 -0500
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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