Re: [E-devel] specifying user environment in Entrance

[Felix B. <fe...@fb...>]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 03:54:15 +0000
Felix Breuer <fe...@fb...> wrote:

> Now, if you think Entrance should always clear the environment, that's
> ok. My next option would then be to have Entrance read the variables it
> is supposed to set from /etc/environment. If I am not mistaken, simply
> executing /etc/environment in entrance would not set the variables. I
> would have to parse the file (using regular expressions) and set the
> individual variables explicitly. Would that approach be ok for you?

I forgot to mention the format of the file. It contains lines of the
form:

  export VAR=VALUE

which is fairly standard. If you think this is too particular to my
case, what format would you suggest for specifying the environment?

Forgive my ignorance, but how do KDM/GDM handle the environment?

Felix