From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 19:45:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407234539.GA1796@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97a2ea98-1537-fd29-d38b-372c59a20ffb@posteo.de>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:14:40AM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> I already set them in my ~/.profile, but that does not seem to work, as
> they are not seen when starting LyX (or perhaps any GUIX installed
> app?). Would setting them in ~/.bash_profile work? I thought that
> ~/.profile is loaded on login. I also need the variables to be visible,
> when I click a launcher for example, so not only when I open a terminal.
> Not sure bash_profile would be considered in that case?
Check the Bash man page, section INVOCATION, and then FILES. That
explains what files are used and in what situations.
In short, ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile should both work. Remember, they
are for login shells, so you need to log in again to see the effect.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-07 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-05 20:49 Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro) Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-04-06 17:11 ` Leo Famulari
2020-04-07 14:27 ` Joshua Branson
2020-04-07 23:14 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-04-07 23:45 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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