Gnome applications and .bash_profile
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 2 19:04:46 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:03 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 11/02/09 12:20, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan:
> > My *question* is what process is reading .bash_profile and acquiring
> > LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Let me repeat it:
> >
> > The invocation chain for evolution, namely:
> > <deleted...>
> > doesn't show a shell of any kind anywhere between gdm, which manages the
> > login screen, and evolution, which knows that LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Very
> > likely the good guy is gnome-session. Maybe I should examine the
> > gnome-session code (What's open source for, anyway?), but I have been too
> > lazy.
> >
> > Thanks to all - jon
> >
> >
>
> Great question. The answer is that if gnome-session is not a bash process then
> it is probably the result of a bash process that became gnome-session after
> running the xinit component and then doing an exec. The exec results in
> gnome-session and preservation of the established environment.
>
> See my reply to Suvayu dated 12:57 EST.
Your theory that gnome-session is exec-ed by bash is a reasonable one.
It appears that gnome, at least, is sourcing in the environment
variables (LC_COLLATE at least) as you say it should, which would make
it unnecessary to source them in *again* in each individual shell.
Except, of course, that the method that gnome uses to acquire them is
that they be in .bash_login.
Interesting.
Thanks - jon
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