Re: howto set global environment variable (e.g. PATH, JAVA_HOME)

On 8/10/07, Edd Barrett <vext01@...> wrote:
> Is there a global Xdefaults file which can be made to source every
> users .profile and /etc/profile for xdm logins?

Yes and no. There's a global defaults for X but they deal with X
resources, not enviroment variables. You can set xterm to always use a
login shell, for example, but that does not affect your DE/WM, only
xterm.
It's not hard to create, say, /etc/xprofile and just source that from
Xsession though.

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Lars Hansson