On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:46:47PM +0100, Sebastian Leske wrote: > 2) There is no place to put a systemwide environment var setting that should > be available to *all* applications > If you put a setting into /etc/profile , it will only be read by login shells > starting up, not e.g. by X programs. For those, it needs to be put into > /etc/X11/Xsession. A long time ago I've patched xdm (locally) to read /etc/environment. I think that I even mailed the patch to debian-devel/devel-policy but it was never set into the policy.
David
