Hi,
> 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. As I mentioned in my mail, on my system (slink) /etc/environment is already sourced by the Xsession file (by default, I didn't do that). I don't know whether that Xsession file comes from x-base, from xdm, kdm or whatever package, but it's somewhere. So your proposal HAS been incorporated into slink. It's not in the policy, that's true. I think it would be a good idea to put it there, so all graphical logins & shells comply, but how do you go about that? Sebastian Leske Please CC me on all replies. I can't subscribe because I have a quota on my Incoming folder (600k...).
