Re: Setting enviroment variables

[Joe Kelsey <joek mail flyingcroc net>]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> From: Joe Kelsey <joek mail flyingcroc net>
>
> > GDM sources ~/.profile as part of Xsession.  Therefore, all subprocesses 
> > of gnome-session inheirit the environment set up by GDM/Xsession.
>
>
> This actually came up as a problem last week for us.
>
> GDM reads .profile pretty early in the process, then, as it goes to start
> the gnome session, prepends /usr/bin to the front of the $PATH .

I do not see this behavior on my machine.  I have FreeBSD 4.9, Gnome 2.4.

My PATH gets set by Xsession calling ~/.profile and GDM does not mess 
with it after that.

/Joe