AM/PM in Thunderbird -

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not necessarily!
>
> 1) Finish thunderbird
> 2) Until the next logout:  . ~/.bashrc;thunderbird
>
> No logout needed :-)

This is consistent with what I said. You're executing a new instance
of TB from the Shell you modified with new external variables.

You could also do:

VARIABLE1=value1 VARIABLE2=value2 ... thunderbird

without having to invoke a new Shell. Same effect.

poc