AM/PM in Thunderbird -

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:31 AM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> instead of taking the time needed to logout and login to desktop,
> i find that opening a terminal and entering;
>
>    . ~/.bashrc
>
> is a faster way to effect new .bashrc entries.

That will have absolutely no effect on any currently running program,
including the desktop you're working in. Processes inherit external
variables from the process that executed them, so only those which are
run from the new shell you just entered are going to see the change.
You could of course visit every other running Shell and source
~/.bashrc, but that will still not affect apps run from the GUI.

IOW, yes you have to log out and in again.

poc