Re: Inheriting shell environment

["Janssen, Folkert Dr." <Dr Folkert Janssen drkw com>]

Dear Brian,

what would be so bad with supporting the .xsession mechanism? An  
individual executable script that can determine its interpreter with  
the hash bang mechanism. This does not rely on any support from your  
side.
The only requirement was that the Xsession file that comes with gdm  
queried for the .xsession file and executed it if it existed. Otherwise  
the standard behaviour could take place.

--Folkert

On 02/14/05 18:58:53, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Morten:
>
> > How do I get my shell environment variables exported to my X
> > environment when using gdm?
> >
> > I thought the usual way would be to source the file containing
> > the environment variables from ~/.Xsession and then gdm would
> > read that file -- but it seems to have no effect?
> >
> > I am using Ubuntu, btw.
>
> I assume that you are asking how to set your default environment
> variables when logging into gdm2.  Note that the script that starts
> your session is the /usr/share/gdm/Xsession script.  Note that it
> sources the following files:
>
> /etc/profile
> $HOME/.profile
> /etc/xprofile
> $HOME/.xprofile
>
> So, if you set environment variables in any of the above files,
> they will be set properly when you log in.
>
> gdm2 is a little different than some other login programs in that
> it does not support setting environment variables for your session
> from shell-specific config files ($HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.cshrc, etc.).
> This is done because your login session isn't really a shell.  Each
> shell is slightly different and making the login program support
> them all (including the odd ones that some people insist on using)
> is prone to bugs, problems, and not really maintainable.  gdm2
> therefore only supports the $HOME/.profile mechanism for setting
> environment variables only.
>
> Brian
>
>
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