Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: >> >>> Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21 1:30 AM >>> Where is >> the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would >> propagate to X apps? > Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on > startup (I

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-21 Thread add|ct|on
ucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Environment variables and X > Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on > startup (I would be very surpris

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: . $HOME/.profile Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make sure you export it: export HTTP_PROXY=your.

Environment variables and X

1999-05-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not f