> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:43:45PM +0400, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
>
> > 5. If I run a program via F3 settiong environment variables doesn't work.
> > For example this one doesn't work: LANG=en_US gkrellm. How do I run a
> > program with modified environment?
>
> In a released version, you can't, but I just changed this in SVN.
> Apparently at least the version of bash that I currently have (and
> that's good enough for me) can automatically 'exec' the last command
> in a sequence of commands to -c so that we don't leave useless shells
> laying around consuming resources even if Ion doesn't add 'exec' prefix
> to every command executed.
>
See env(1). It let's you pass environment variables to new programs, ie;
env DISPLAY=:0.1 xterm
Most shells support similar functionality without the need for env(1),
but I use it anyway out of habbit.
Perhaps this is what you're looking for?
-Jordan
