Micha> How can i set an environment variable under an x11 session
Micha> (not a specific xterm under x) so that they work for
Micha> programs not opened through a terminal ( for example the
Micha> CVSROOT var for tkcvs)
> /etc/environment should do it.
How do you export variables set in /etc/environment?
Since login and sshd also use /etc/environment you can't put export
statements into this file.
login seems to ignore lines in /etc/environment that export variables
but sshd outputs warnings and the manual page of sshd explicitly
states:
/etc/environment
This file is read into the environment at login (if
it exists). It can only contain empty lines, com
ment lines (that start with ´#´), and assignment
lines of the form name=value.
Since login and sshd export the variables set in /etc/environment
IMHO /etc/X11/Xsession should to this too.
I've inserted the following for-loop into /etc/X11/Xsession:
if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then
. /etc/environment
for n in `cut -s -d= -f1 /etc/environment`; do export $n; done
fi
Maybe it would be better to use awk and a regular expression instead of
cut to find the variable assignments.
