Re: Setting environment variables in Gnome session

[Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan@terracrypt.net>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:40 PM, Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> 
wrote:
> If you use GDM and GNOME, and have Bash as your shell, you need to set
> the variables in “~/.bash_profile” or “~/.bashrc”.  Guix 
> System sets up
> GDM to run your X session from the your login shell (which I’m 
> assuming
> is Bash).  Since Guix System provides a “~/.bash_profile” file by
> default, Bash will read this and skip “~/.profile”.
> 
> So if you set the variables in a Bash-specific file it should work.
> 
> 
> -- Tim

Thanks, but the environment variable I'm looking to set needs to apply 
to Gnome itself rather than my terminal shell. It's the search path 
that Gnome uses to find XDG application files. I believe 
~/.bash_profile is only read by bash specifically?

(I've just tried adding the relevant env var to ~/.bash_profile in any 
case, but it doesn't seem to have affected gnome-shell's environment.)