From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
To: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan@terracrypt.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting environment variables in Gnome session
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:15:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rx44vqp.fsf@ngyro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1567039835.10983.0@terracrypt.net> (Jonathan Frederickson's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:50:35 -0400")
Hi Jonathan,
Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan@terracrypt.net> writes:
> 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?
Yes. Because Bash is your login shell, it gets invoked as part of
spawning your X session. Because of this, Bash-specific configuration
files affect your X session’s environment.
> (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.)
In my “~/.bash_profile”, I wrote
export PROFILE_MESSAGE=HI
Then, I logged out of GNOME and logged back in to GNOME. After that, I
opened a program – not a terminal :) – from GNOME Shell and confirmed
that it sees that “PROFILE_MESSAGE” is set to “HI”.
Did you log out and in again?
-- Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 19:53 Setting environment variables in Gnome session Jonathan Frederickson
2019-08-28 20:58 ` Jonathan Frederickson
2019-08-29 0:40 ` Timothy Sample
2019-08-29 0:50 ` Jonathan Frederickson
2019-08-29 1:15 ` Timothy Sample [this message]
2019-08-29 4:06 ` Jonathan Frederickson
2019-08-29 3:03 ` Jesse Gibbons
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