Gnome applications and .bash_profile
Mikkel
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Nov 1 02:34:15 UTC 2009
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible
> to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example
> evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE.
>
It depends on the type of shell. Only a login shell reads
.bash_profile. If you are starting a (x)terminal, and launching the
program from there, the default is not to run your as a login shell.
Mikkel
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