gnome environment

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:44:03AM +0200, Torsten Curdt said
> How is the gnome environment being assembled?
> 
> I am trying to start a java application via custom launcher from a
> panel but it turns out that the JAVA_HOME variable is not set.
> 
> Although it's being set in /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc! As a
> usual user it's set fine for login and non-login shells.  IMHO it
> should work.
> 
> What would be the most appropriate way to populate this environment
> variable throughout the whole system?

gdm does not uses either of those files.  AIUI, setting it in
/etc/environment should work.

-rob

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