> Emacs is not supposed to load .bashrc.  That file has
> to do 
> with bash only.
> Emacs' initialization file is supposed to be 
> .emacs.d/init.el.  Do you have this file?

There is a need for the login GUI to obtain the user's environment, so that all
children of the GUI inherit that environment.  With dtlogin, this is enabled by
editing the  .dtprofile file.  I don't know how this is done with the gdm login 
GUI.
I hope there's a way.

> stephen bond wrote:
> > I created a launcher for emacs, so i can start it
> from the top panel/bar. however, it does not load
> .bashrc and emacs does not know anything about my
> environment which makes it quite inconvenient.
> > 
> > is there a way to have it know about the
> environment same way as when started from a terminal?
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