Gnome applications and .bash_profile
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Nov 5 04:07:52 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 02:02 +0000, Allen Halsey wrote:
> Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh <at> pacbell.net> writes:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > But how? Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution -- no
> > shells here...
> See this excellent post by Chris Tyler where he explores the sequence of events
> leading to execution of .bash_profile:
>
> http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/122-Wednesday-Why-Logins-and-Sessions.html
>
> The critical line is in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script:
>
> exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH gnome-session"
>
> where SHELL is bash.
Thanks. The article seems to be about the exact question I asked.
(Haven't had a chance to read it yet.)
jon
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