On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:31:19PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to set some environment variables globally for the whole > system. Before I began using xdm /etc/profile was fine for that. But > now X is started directly by xdm which is started by init, there is no > mother login shell for all user processes. > > Is there a way of telling xdm to execute /etc/profile. If not, how > could I achieve the desired effect in some other way?
chnage the first line of /etc/X11/Xsession from: #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash --login and use a non-broken *dm such as wdm in unstable. it respects pam_env and thus loads /etc/environment. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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