to...@tuxteam.de: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:07:19AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>>> I would like to hear some ideas on how to set various environment >>>>> variables (PATH, MANPATH, EDITOR etc.) in one place that would make them >>>>> effective everywhere. My "everywhere" means: >>>>> - X session started through lightdm and ~/.xsession script >>>>> - Linux console login (bash) >>>>> - user's systemd services >>>> Put them into /etc/environment.
For a while I've been trying to set the locale but everytime I install a package it returns locale not set returning to default C I used /etc/environment, and no change. I suspect this may be due to some skipped step on the original installation as a similar installation on a similar machine does not have this problem. I have yet to locate the difference between the two. I hope this is not perceived as hijacking. Another possibly related problem I have is that although the language env settings are for UTF8, non latin UTF8 valide characters if used as a file name it is stored as ??????????.odt (example) This is a pain in the posterior to have to rename them with a latin alphabet name and creates all kinds of mix-up with doubling files. Not that I want to create filenames in other languages but downloading an archive of files with such names makes the set unreadable (like an html set of files), the local links break. >>> I haven't re-tried recently, but last time: >>> - It never worked for me. >>> - It can't hold user-specific settings. >>> - It can't *compute* a setting. >>> >>> >>> Stefan > >> IMO there is a good reason for so many places where you can put variables. >> In fact it is not good to put X related variables in a non X session - >> right?! > > There will be some that want to be different. There will be some that > want to be the same. The OP's question was about the latter, right? > >> So I do distinguish between settings for X session and for not X session - >> at least two places for the variables. >> Further more there are global and user specific ... etc > > Yes, all of those! But I don't see how that's an answer to the OP's > legitimate question: how to keep things that belong together in one > place, instead of repeating it in every bit of config? > > regards > -- tomás > -- "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG
