How to set environment variables for X session? [Was Re: Any idea why starting evolution...]

[Jérôme Guelfucci]

On 24/10/10 15:42, Chris G wrote:
> What's the proper/official way to set environment variables for an X
> session?  I.e. how do I run a command and set some variables early in
> the X session startup so that they will be available to any/all programs
> in the X session?
>
> Setting them in .xprofile isn't early enough, that only sets variables
> for programs run in terminal windows far as I can tell.
>

Here on Debian, I set them in .xsessionrc.

Cheers,

Jérôme