Re: Re: Modifying the environment

Hi,

15Jun2005 @ 01:20 Glenn Morris thusly spake
> Vigil wrote:
> 
> > Not without restarting X.
> 
> Blast.
> 
> > You can of course modify a shell's environment and start any X
> > programs from that.
> 
> Sure. What tends to happen is, I modify the environment of my existing
> xterms, then some time later open a new one from the WM menu. The new
> one gets the old environment, leading to much fun and excitement when
> I forget I wanted to change the environment.

change the environment in /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc 
then any new shell spawned will pick up the env var.

add a line to one of the above
'export PATH=$PATH:newpath'



kind regards,
Luke

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