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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fu8shayl.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20171202104720.GA1409@magellan.machin.org

Philippe Delavalade wrote:

> A command grep -i "gdm" /etc/* showed me
> a bash script with the line export
> LOGNAME="GDM" I commented it and now
> everything looks clean.

Great! :)

Do this as well

    $ sudo grep -r 'export LOGNAME' /

so to make sure nothing else messes with it.
It takes some time to complete. And just as
with `apropos-value', some of the hits can be
related to the search itself...

> Thanks for answers and apologies for
> my question.

Not at all :)

Most questions/discussions here are about Emacs
itself but getting Emacs to work isn't OT.
No post that has the word "Emacs" in it is,
basically...

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30  8:26 File .emacs not read Philippe Delavalade
2017-12-02 10:47 ` File .emacs not read (resolved) Philippe Delavalade
2017-12-03  1:11   ` Emanuel Berg [this message]

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