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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:40 PM, Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>=20
wrote:
> If you use GDM and GNOME, and have Bash as your shell, you need to set
> the variables in =B4~/.bash_profile=A1 or =B4~/.bashrc=A1.  Guix=20
> System sets up
> GDM to run your X session from the your login shell (which I=FFm=20
> assuming
> is Bash).  Since Guix System provides a =B4~/.bash_profile=A1 file by
> default, Bash will read this and skip =B4~/.profile=A1.
>=20
> So if you set the variables in a Bash-specific file it should work.
>=20
>=20
> -- Tim

Thanks, but the environment variable I'm looking to set needs to apply=20
to Gnome itself rather than my terminal shell. It's the search path=20
that Gnome uses to find XDG application files. I believe=20
~/.bash_profile is only read by bash specifically?

(I've just tried adding the relevant env var to ~/.bash_profile in any=20
case, but it doesn't seem to have affected gnome-shell's environment.)

=