Giuseppe Scrivano <gscriv...@gnu.org> writes: > I have followed exactly your same steps under Fedora/Gnome and I get > this: > > $ env | grep -i proxy > NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8 > http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/
OK. Did you use the "apply settings system-wide" option? I didn't, in my testing - maybe that makes a difference. > I don't know why it doesn't work under Ubuntu (I don't have an Ubuntu > installation around here to test it), but if doesn't work then it must > be reported. I wasn't sure if it was even supposed to work. Programs like Firefox or Google Chrome surely can't use environment variables as described in my test, so there must be an API for "system" proxy settings.