Re: Setting enviroment variables

[Joe Kelsey <joek mail flyingcroc net>]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Re: I do not see this behavior on my machine
>
> I have GNOME 2.0 on SPARC Solaris.  I don't know whether this 

In GNOME 2.0, gdm *did not* process ~/.profile.  Prior to GNOME 2.4, gdm 
 invoked .gnomerc at session startup time.  With the change to GNOME 
2.4,  gdm changed to use Xsession to start the session in a manner 
compatible with kdm as part of a desktop regularization process.

Since you claim to have an *ancient* version of gnome running, I can 
only suggest that you upgrade.

If, in fact, you have the *Sun* release, I can only speculate that Sun 
has mislabeled gnome 2.4 as gnome 2.0.

Dos the file Xsession exist in the gdm etc directory?  (on FreeBSD, this 
resolves to /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/.  I have no idea what Sun or Linux use 
for this.  All of the gdm file (gdm.conf, Init/, PreSession/, etc) live 
there.  If Xsession exists there, then you most likely have some version 
of gnome 2.4.

/Joe