On 12Jul2007 12:26, Ryan Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hans Voss said:
| > You CAN actually use them in shells and all other programs started
| > from FVWM. (FVWM is the parent and propagates its environment to its
| > children).
| >
| > I even use fvwm to set some environment variables for my shells
| > instead of in .bashrc or some-such.
| 
| I have converted my config to use the FVWM SetEnv instead of via .cshrc
| or the like.
| 
| One issue I appear to be having, though, is that when the root user logs
| in, I do not see the various environment variables if I issue an 'env'. 
| However, I do feel they're getting set because various settings
| (ImagePath for one) relies on these environment variables.
| 
| Is there any reason why root wouldn't see these variables?

When you say "root user logs in", exactly what procedure takes place?
A GUI login? An "su -"? Etc.
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