Gnome applications and .bash_profile

[Didar Hossain]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> 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.

Stuff that you need defined irrespective of the type of shell should go in
~/.bashrc

Didar