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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim., 2010-10-24 at 16:28 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I've played some more, .xsessionrc *is* executed but environment
> variables
> set in .xsessionrc don't get out to the X session.  Presumably
> .xsessionrc must be being run in a child process somewhere on the way
> in
> and thus variables set there are lost.  I tried simply the following
> in
> my .xsessionrc :-
> 
>     echo ".xsessionrc starting" >/home/chris/tmp/xsession.log
>     export MYENVVAR="ABCDEFG"
>     echo ".xsessionrc ending" >>/home/chris/tmp/xsession.log
> 
> and I got the messages in /home/chris/tmp/xsession.log but MYENVVAR
> wasn't set. 

It does work fine here. Check something isn't cleaning up the
environment you're checking from.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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