proper place to set environment variables?

[killermoehre]

Am 12.05.2014 20:09, schrieb John Gabriele:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running as my desktop a stock Debian "Testing" (which is currently
> aliased to "jessie") system with Xfce 4.10, and log in graphically via
> LightDM.
> 
> Where is the proper location to set environment variables? That is, I
> tried doing so in ~/.profile, but that file does not appear to be
> sourced when logging into the desktop (I think it may when logging in
> via text console though).
> 
> Thanks!

For global variables use /etc/environment, for local variables use
~/.pam_environment. See »grep -R env /etc/pam.d/« for this.

Regards

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