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. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ You can't have everything... where would you put it? - Charles Robinson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
