Since recent release, you can also set the default map cache directory directly in viking: Edit->Preferences
2010/4/7 Jochen Kunz <jk...@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:43:05 -0700 (PDT) > Mark Coulter <i_offr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> If I run viking from the command line it picks up that variable and >> uses it. If I run viking from the menu or double clicking file.viking >> file it doesn't pick up the variable. > Most likely /etc/environment is read by the shell you use. Therefore it > is set on the command line. If you start viking from the shell it > becomes a child of the shell and inherits the shell environement. But > if you start viking by double clicking, viking is a child of the window > manager that in turn is a child of the display manager that is a child > if init(8). There is no shell in between that reads /etc/environment. > So the env-var is not set. > > I set my environement in ~/.xsession. But most likely you are not using > a ~/.xsession. Maybe you have to add somthing like > . /etc/environment > to the rc-script that starts your display manager. > > For the bash(1) there is also a difference in reading startup files > like /etc/profile depending on the shell being interactive or not... > -- > > > tschüß, > Jochen > > Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Viking-devel mailing list > Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel > Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/ > -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
