Re: setting up environment variables

From: Kai Grossjohann (kai_at_emptydomain.de)
Date: 09/14/05

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Date:  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:35:38 +0200

    Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> writes:

    > I only tried it with startx from a cmd line. Thanks for the info. But I
    > can't think where else you would set it up.

    Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
    seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
    logging in.

    I realize that a proper fix may be difficult, as these programs need
    to both start a script (~/.xsession) and run a login shell, and if the
    login shell is csh but the script a bash script, then what do we do?

    Kai 

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