Reading environment variables when launching programs.

[Andrew Conkling]

On 1/17/06, Roberto Passuello <roberto.passuello at elettra.trieste.it> wrote:
> I have some enviroment variables set in ~/.bash_profile needed to correctly
> run a few applications. I put those applications in the pop down menu but the
> environment variables are not read when the applications are launched. Is
> there a way to make Xfce map those variables without writing a script to be
> launched instead of the real executable? I tried to write the declaration of
> the variables in .xsession but it didn't work!

Setting them in ~/.bash_profile should be sufficient, but IIRC some
distros change which files are run on logging in.  Maybe make the
changes in ~/.bashrc instead and see if that makes a difference?  Of
course, whatever works, you'll have to logout and back in to make the
changes persistent for your session.

HTH,
Andrew

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