gdm, xdm environment

David Clarke gadicath at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 7 22:43:42 EST 2002


On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, Greg O'Keefe wrote:
> I've started logging in via gdm. When you do this, there isn't a login shell
> that is the mother of all your processes, so how do you set environment
> variables you want, like EDITOR=vi?
> 

You could set them in your ~/.xsession file.  I'm sure there's a nicer
way to do it though.

	David.

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