/etc/environment is not parsed

[Alain Muls]

Hi

I want to setup a global variable for http_proxy. Googling learned me to put 
it into /etc/environment and reboot the machine. So I did, but still, no proxy 
is set for me (or another user). Where should one put a global environmental 
variable?

Tx/Alain

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