On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Didar Hossain didar.hossain@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Mikkel mikkel@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE.
It depends on the type of shell. Only a login shell reads .bash_profile. If you are starting a (x)terminal, and launching the program from there, the default is not to run your as a login shell.
Stuff that you need defined irrespective of the type of shell should go in ~/.bashrc
Correction: ~/.bashrc is for non-login shells *only*. So, you will need to put the stuff in both ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile
Didar