Hi, For a long time I used the file ~/.gnomerc to setup my environment variables and start other init-time apps for Gnome sessions (I use gdm and gnome-session). It was apparently read in such a way that environment variables set there were inherited by all apps started in the X session -- very handy!
Now I've upgraded my packages for the first time in a long time (I got an ADSL line and moved from and out-of-date testing system to a completely up-to-date unstable), and the above has suddenly stopped working: none of the apps I start in gnome seem to have my environment variables set. So I can only guess that either gdm/gnome-session (or whoever it is that used .gnomerc) has stopped using .gnomerc, or that the way it's used has changed so that environment variables are not propagated. Does anyone know what's going on? Is there a "blessed" way to setup your environment variables for the entire Gnome session? Some package versions (I dunno what else is relevant): ii gdm 2.6.0.8-1 GNOME Display Manager ii gnome-session 2.10.0-8 The GNOME 2 Session Manager Thanks, -Miles -- "Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
