Hello all, I'm totally at a loss. Could someone tell me how one should set environment variables at the startup of Gnome? I'm not talking about ~/.bashrc or its friends. Since env. vars. are inherited from parents by children, you should need to set them only at the ultimate ancestor.
Before moving to Gnome, I used xdm (a login manager), which sources ~/.xsession, so that you set env. vars. in there and you invoke whatever program you like from there. The latter functionality can be replaced with Gnome's session manager (I may not be remembering the name correctly) where you can specify programs to be invoked at the startup. But, what about the env. vars.? I feel like being dumb.:-( In the traditional Unix/Linux world, such information used to be invaribly found in manpages. "man gnome", however, tells you nothing. Where can I find information on the startup sequence of the gnome system? I guess gdm invokes "something" and that "something" acts as the "ultimate ancestor". Why is it so hard to find such a documentation? Regards, Ryo ------------- PS. I've just realized something interesting. Programs directly invoked from the Gnome menu or desktop seem to have init (pid 1) as their parent. That means the Gnome "ultimate ancestor" orphans every child. . . . Why does it do that? I'm just interested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
