Re: GDM Messing up my environment

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp mkp net>]

> I have gdm installed on a Mandrake-Linux 7.0 system, from package
> gdm-2.0beta4-3mdk.i586.rpm.  I do not have any KDE packages
> installed on this system, only GNOME.  I have a bunch of environment
> variables set for both bash and tcsh users via the /etc/profile and
> /etc/csh.cshrc config files, but these settings are either being
> overridden or ignored by gdm.  The documentation seems to imply that
> settings in the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (for example,
> DefaultPath) are used by gdm for the purposes of login and session
> startup, but after the user has been authorized, shouldn't the
> system shell config file (and then the user's ~/.bashrc or
> ~/.tcshrc) take over and set up the environment?

Yes. Fixed in my devel tree.

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Martin K. Petersen      Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
http://mkp.net/         SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME