X environment

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/27/06, Jan <jan.enrico at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the moment I have to run evolution from xterm in order to get
> japanese sorting ...

That's because LC_COLLATE is only available from your xterm but not
from your X session... because it's not being exported?  (Again, I'm
not sure, but this is a bash question, not Xfce.  You are free to ask
here, of course.)


> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 21:26 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > On 2/27/06, Jan <jan.enrico at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I'm using Gentoo with Xfce as desktop (with GDM for login).
> > > In file /etc/profile.env I have line:
> > > export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
> > >
> > > However for certain user I want LC_COLLATE to be
> > > LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8', therefore I set it in
> > > ~user/.bashrc
> > >
> > > The problem is that in xterm I get it set properly however when running
> > > (for example evolution mail client) from xfce menu
> > > LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8' is apparently ignored. (Addresses in evolution
> > > are not sorted properly).
> > >
> > > Why is my bash environment and X environmet different ?
> >
> > AFAIK, .bashrc is only loaded for interactive sessions (e.g. an xterm)
> > and .bash_profile is the one in which you want to put it.  Also, I
> > think you should export it (i.e. "export LC_COLLATE='ja_JP.UTF-8'") to
> > make it available to everything else in your session.  Still yet,
> > maybe it should be in double quotes, or not at all?
> >
> > Sorry about all the ambiguity, but I'm no bash expert, and this is an
> > Xfce list. :)
> >
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