On 2022-05-18, Michael <findme@thewoods.earth> wrote: > On 05/19/22 01:44AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I want to export XDG_CACHE_HOME variable used by Xorg. >> What is the best place (file or ?) to export this variable? >> >> I remember i used some file to export a long time ago PS1 variable. >> Should I use ~/.login file or is it a better way to export this xorg >> variable? >> >> OpenBSD amd64 here, snapshots install. >> >> Thank you. >> > > Non-expert answer here, but I recently was trying various places to get > the following working: > > export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct > > Everywhere online (Linux users mainly) were saying to put it in > .profile, which did not work on OpenBSD. What ended up working for me > is putting it in .xsession. So I assume that is a good place for any > export command like this.
.xsession is not a bad place for things relating to a single user in X. For a more global thing, environment variables can be set in login.conf, independent of shells etc.
