On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:32:54PM -0600, Steve Doerr wrote: > Hello. Can anyone give me some tips as to why the following variables > aren't available to the user I log in as? > > I've put them in /etc/profile, /home/steve/.bashrc, and > /home/steve/.bash_profile. Log out and back in thru gdm, and I have to > set them manually. On a side note, Mozilla should be picking them up as > a printer list when I run it as user steve, but it's not seeing them either. > > export XPSERVERLIST="'/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist'" > export LPDEST=lp
Graphical login managers don't source those files. You need to start your WM using an ~/.xsession file, which should source anything you want. -rob
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