setting environment variable for gdm (X)

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Tue Sep 27 13:44:11 UTC 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:50:25AM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 02:23 +0000, snpe wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   I change my PATH in /etc/profile and it work fine from console login ,
>> but login with gdm don't read /etc/profile.How I can set variable for gdm
>> 
>
>Try putting them in "/etc/environment".  I'm not sure if it'll work,
>though.

You can also try putting it in /etc/security/pam_env.conf.

/M

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