Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:01, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:46, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Does anybody know how to get environment variables (like export...) working system-wide, that is, on the command line (BASH for me), in the log screens (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F12), and in X? I prefer to have X automatically load at startup (since it frees-up a console), but this means that I cannot take advantage of BASH's environment variables (configurable in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bashrc). I know I can load apps from a terminal, but I'd prefer to have something available throughout all of my X environment (for panel applets, etc.). I have placed my lines in /etc/X11/Xsession, but this doesn't appear to work anymore since I installed KDE 2.2 beta 1 (I use GNOME, though). Environment variables don't seem to work on the log screens (e.g. when you press Ctrl-Alt-F12) or for system processes (daemons, etc.), either. My system clock is set to UTC (i.e. Greenwich Mean TIme), and I use environment variables to enter my time zone settings so that the displayed time is correct (that way I can set my system time from an NTP server with ntpdate). It works fine in BASH, and as I mentioned above it used to work in X. Cron is always ten hours behind my local time (since I'm UTC +10h), and it can become annoying when it begins maintenence tasks during the day when I'm using the computer. Alternatively, is there a better solution to my setup? Any help would be much appreciated. /etc/profile is your friend I thought so too. I have already tried placing my lines in /etc/profile yet it doesn't seem to work as it should. Two lines I wish to execute are: # Enable QT Anti-Aliasing. export QT_XFT=1 # Enable Sun Java Plug-in. export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns4/ Thanks for the response. Exporting QT_XFT=1 should enable anti-aliasing on any QT2 application I load (even non-KDE apps), despite the fact that I'm not using KDE as my desktop. This used to work fine when placed in /etc/X11/Xsession, for apps like Kmail, Konqueror and Opera. Nowadays, however, I am resorting to using shell scripts that export QT_XFT=1 before loading the required app. The second variable is necessary to enable Sun's Java plug-in (otherwise it won't work in Netscape). Any other ideas? TIA. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?
On Monday 09 July 2001 06:29, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:01, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:46, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Does anybody know how to get environment variables (like export...) working system-wide, that is, on the command line (BASH for me), in the log screens (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F12), and in X? I prefer to have X automatically load at startup (since it frees-up a console), but this means that I cannot take advantage of BASH's environment variables (configurable in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bashrc). I know I can load apps from a terminal, but I'd prefer to have something available throughout all of my X environment (for panel applets, etc.). I have placed my lines in /etc/X11/Xsession, but this doesn't appear to work anymore since I installed KDE 2.2 beta 1 (I use GNOME, though). Environment variables don't seem to work on the log screens (e.g. when you press Ctrl-Alt-F12) or for system processes (daemons, etc.), either. My system clock is set to UTC (i.e. Greenwich Mean TIme), and I use environment variables to enter my time zone settings so that the displayed time is correct (that way I can set my system time from an NTP server with ntpdate). It works fine in BASH, and as I mentioned above it used to work in X. Cron is always ten hours behind my local time (since I'm UTC +10h), and it can become annoying when it begins maintenence tasks during the day when I'm using the computer. Alternatively, is there a better solution to my setup? Any help would be much appreciated. /etc/profile is your friend I thought so too. I have already tried placing my lines in /etc/profile yet it doesn't seem to work as it should. Two lines I wish to execute are: # Enable QT Anti-Aliasing. export QT_XFT=1 # Enable Sun Java Plug-in. export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns4/ From my /etc/profile... export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/java/plugin/i386 Thanks for the response. Exporting QT_XFT=1 should enable anti-aliasing on any QT2 application I load (even non-KDE apps), despite the fact that I'm not using KDE as my desktop. This used to work fine when placed in /etc/X11/Xsession, for apps like Kmail, Konqueror and Opera. Nowadays, however, I am resorting to using shell scripts that export QT_XFT=1 before loading the required app. The second variable is necessary to enable Sun's Java plug-in (otherwise it won't work in Netscape). Any other ideas? TIA. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ) Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1 Uptime 11 hours 56 minutes
Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?
On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:46, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Does anybody know how to get environment variables (like export...) working system-wide, that is, on the command line (BASH for me), in the log screens (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F12), and in X? I prefer to have X automatically load at startup (since it frees-up a console), but this means that I cannot take advantage of BASH's environment variables (configurable in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bashrc). I know I can load apps from a terminal, but I'd prefer to have something available throughout all of my X environment (for panel applets, etc.). I have placed my lines in /etc/X11/Xsession, but this doesn't appear to work anymore since I installed KDE 2.2 beta 1 (I use GNOME, though). Environment variables don't seem to work on the log screens (e.g. when you press Ctrl-Alt-F12) or for system processes (daemons, etc.), either. My system clock is set to UTC (i.e. Greenwich Mean TIme), and I use environment variables to enter my time zone settings so that the displayed time is correct (that way I can set my system time from an NTP server with ntpdate). It works fine in BASH, and as I mentioned above it used to work in X. Cron is always ten hours behind my local time (since I'm UTC +10h), and it can become annoying when it begins maintenence tasks during the day when I'm using the computer. Alternatively, is there a better solution to my setup? Any help would be much appreciated. /etc/profile is your friend -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ) Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1 Uptime 2 hours 19 minutes
