On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Mark Phillips wrote:

> How can I make gdm or xdm read /etc/profile at start up? I have some
> environment variables in /etc/profile and they are not set when I log in.

/etc/profile is used by login Bourne-type shell, but you can still use it
since sh is used to run the Xsession.

Source the file in with a ~/.xsession file, like:

. /etc/profile
exec yourwindowmanager


 Jeremy C. Reed

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