On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:44:20AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The /etc/environment setting only specifies the default environment; in > order to make it take effect, you'd have to reboot.
No, you just have to login again (or trigger whatever else you're doing that uses the pam_env module). Unless this is yet another thing where GNOME breaks unix. Of course, /etc/environment is basically useless for anything complex, because you can't pull shell parameter expansions in it. Only constant strings.
