From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NL818-0000mV-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:31:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1236E0A6C for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B050E0900 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578da1c.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.218.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nBH3shKV007072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:54:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id A4FFE19D922; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:54:43 -0500 (EST) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? References: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4B254CEB.80808@gmail.com> <200912132044.00264.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20091213230133.1b4fdb09@digimed.co.uk> <358eca8f0912140318n49ca0305m7771b6833df1d621@mail.gmail.com> <20091214122242.1a325dc4@digimed.co.uk> <4B26B457.9060209@coolmail.se> <4B29320E.2050206@coolmail.se> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:54:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B29320E.2050206@coolmail.se> (pk's message of "Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:16:30 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: b5e38ea5-1e5a-48d7-9bbb-c02e7a337287 X-Archives-Hash: 7d465a72b7f300c74c69e689395c4007 At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:16:30 +0100 pk wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> Does that get sourced by the gnome panel so that launchers see it? >> I hadn't thought so, but will try it. > > Hm... X/xDM is started from a virtual console (mine is usually started > from VC-7, which is the default). That's where your login should happen, > so everything started after that should inherit the environment > variables. I would assume gnome DE (everything related to) uses the same > "tactic"... but given the gnome developers ms-windows fanatiscism I > wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Adding export $PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH to ~/.profile does seem to work so thank you. But I am surprised. X/xDM runs as root so wouldn't look in my .profile when *IT* starts. I had assumed (incorrectly) that I had to put the above export into one of the startup files mentioned in the man pages, but couldn't figure out which one. It is indeed much easier than I thought! thanks again, allan