Gnome applications and .bash_profile
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 2 17:20:35 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:34 -0500, Mikkel wrote:
> 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.
Thanks to all for your advice on this. However I have a *question* and
not a *problem*. I have LC_COLLATE=POSIX in .bash_profile and not
in .bashrc, and everything is working just as I would like it to. If I
find problems in the future, I may move it into .bashrc, which is
invoked from .bash_profile, in exactly the way that Suvayu Ali
recommended; this method is in the standard .bash_profile located
in /etc/skel.
My *question* is what process is reading .bash_profile and acquiring
LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Let me repeat it:
The invocation chain for evolution, namely:
$ ps fax
...
1710 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
14284 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/Disp
14285 tty7 Ss+ 0:43 \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-
14366 ? S 0:00 \_ pam: gdm-password
14413 ? Ssl 0:00 \_ gnome-session
14523 ? Sl 0:00 \_ metacity
14536 ? S 0:00 \_ gnome-panel
14537 ? S 0:00 \_ nautilus
14542 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/run-mozilla.s
14651 ? Sl 0:41 | \_ /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/firefox
14543 ? Sl 0:17 \_ evolution
...
doesn't show a shell of any kind anywhere between gdm, which manages the
login screen, and evolution, which knows that LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Very
likely the good guy is gnome-session. Maybe I should examine the
gnome-session code (What's open source for, anyway?), but I have been
too lazy.
Thanks to all - jon
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