Re: Problems with environment variables

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:02:50PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am using gdm and it is not reading /etc/profile when I log in.
> 
> I have googled for a solution, and the best I got was "dotting in 
> /etc/profile" in ~/.xsession. I tried the following with no success:
> 
> 1. Created a ~/.xsession file
> 2. Added the lines
> . /etc/profile
> 3. reboot
> 
> What am I missing? What does "dotting in /etc/profile" in ~/.xsession 
> mean? What is the preferred place to put environment variables on a 
> system that uses gdm to login?

Environment needs to be read in the Xsession file,  See what your
BaseXsession= key says in your config file and then look at that file, it's
probably doing something bad.

George

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