dman wrote: > What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for > apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell).
What process starts the panel? Isn't there a login shell somewhere at the root of all the processes that get started for you at login time? I would think if you could set a variable in that shell, and export it, then it should still be visible to processes launched by the panel. Having poked around the system a bit for similar purposes, I find the following files to be useful in getting environment variables visible more or less globally: /etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/gdm/gdm.conf /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome Presumably there are equivalent files available for other login managers. I don't know offhand how you could make a variable visible to all cron jobs globally. There is a basic problem there, that each user has his own crontab file, and can set or override variables as he pleases. Craig
