Re: environment variables in emacs

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<10a388ae-22ff-41d3-9b4e-13668b7da848@o11g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
 rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 27, 8:14 am, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > In article
> > <dad3cf1c-d75c-44fd-8cd6-7cffc4b31...@f36g2000prj.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> >  rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Not really an emacs question but still hoping someone will know.
> >
> > > If I start emacs from a shell it sees  my path settings from .bashrc
> > > If however I click the icon on the bar at the top of gnome I dont get
> > > them
> >
> > > How to tell X to use my .bashrc settings?
> >
> > Your .xinitrc should source .bashrc.
> 
> Well I tried putting
> . ~/.bashrc
> in my .xinitrc
> 
> Does not make any difference. What am I doing wrong?

Are you starting GNOME from your .xinitrc, or are you using GDM to log 
directly into the window environment?  It sounds like the latter.

In that case, I think you need to set your environment variables in 
.profile rather than .bashrc.  I think this should be read by the 
session startup script.

You can simply add

. ~/.bashrc

to your .profile so they're set in both scripts.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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