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To: Fred Condo <fcondo@csuchico.edu>
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Subject: Re: Setting environment variables for an X session
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Fred> One thing I do not understand is where to set environment
Fred> variables such as NNTP_SERVER or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for real
Fred> video) or MANPATH (I can't get xman to see local man pages, for
Fred> example). When I used only text or telnet modes, I set these in
Fred> .profile.

You need a .xsession script in your home directory. This is run by xdm 
when you login in. I think it will be somewhat difficult to persuade
bash to automatically source your .bashrc file from .xsession, but you 
can hard code a ". ~/.bashrc" line in your .xsession.

Sales pitch: I use zsh specifically because it ALWAYS sources
~/.zshenv, even for shell scripts.

Make sure your .xsession is executable (chmod a+x ~/.xsession) and is
a bash script (starts out with #!/bin/bash or what ever your path to
bash is) and things should work fine.

You can also set environment variables directly in your .xsession if
you want too.


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