Terminal and Environment variables

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb at charter.net
Tue Apr 6 04:58:55 CEST 2004


There are.  Check out $BROWSER and $TERMCMD.  If you look at the xfce 
scipts such as help you'll see there is (or was) a browser variable.  I 
set it in my /etc/bash.rc file which is sourced by all users.  You can 
set it in your local profiles if you want.


Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Sorry for all the questions; I just got my email working again on my
> Linux machine, so there have been a few on my mind for the last few
> weeks.
> 
> I just removed xterm because I never use it, but now the launchers that
> are made to start in terminal won't do so.  Do they require xterm to
> run?  If so, why and how would I change that?
> 
> Second question: Why does XFCE automatically bind its default menu to
> xterm and Mozilla for the terminal and web manager?  I think it'd be
> better if it implemented the environment variables for those things,
> making the XFCE experience more customised with less effort. ;)
> 
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