Re: Globally setting environment variables with xdm

2001-03-11 Thread Ethan Benson
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 > mothe

Globally setting environment variables with xdm

2001-03-11 Thread Christoph Groth
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 execu