Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Stefan Bellon did write: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > > gdm, but without the rest of GNOME, only gdm. > > > gdm won't evaluate your .bashrc to set the environment variables. The > > idomatic solution is to create a ~/.environment file where you set all > > of your environment variables, then each of your other .rc files > > (.bashrc, .gnomerc, .xsession, etc.) source that file. > > I know very little of the login process. Does gdm evaluate the > ~/.environment file? Or the ~/.xsession file? If neither, then the > above solution doesn't give me any advantage. If it does evaluate one, > then yes, this is clearly the way to go.
I *think*, although I'm not entirely certain, that a gdm login will end up reading .xsession. It's been a long time since I've used gdm, so I'm a little unclear on the details. However, I don't remember whether it ever creates a login shell for you. If it doesn't, you might try putting the following on the first line of .xsession: #!/bin/bash --login This will force it to be a login shell, which should source the appropriate bash dotfiles. In my case, I log in on the console and run startx from within a login shell, so it pretty much just works. (If you're not too attached to graphical login managers, you may want to try this tactic; I've always found it a lot easier to understand and configure.) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
