Re: Set an environment variable for an app.

Mike Miller <[email protected]> Tue, 22 May 2012 05:36:50 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.network.vnc.user,gmane.network.vnc.realvnc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Karen Thompson wrote:

> I need to set an environemt variable for a program running via 
> vncviewer.  It requires a env. variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_31. 
> I have tried looking up on the web for hours and have had no luck.  I am 
> sure this is something very easy, if I just knew how.


I would think that you could just add it to the ~/.vnc/xstartup file just 
after the first line (the first line is typically "#!/bin/sh" without the 
quotes):

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_31

(I removed a period from the end of that line assuming it wasn't meant to 
be part of the line.)

Mike

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