Solved - RE: [ale] Where is X11 overwriting my environmentals?

[Mills, John M.]

Jerry -

Thanks for your note and for the information. I do get blind-sided from time
to time on this type of issue.

I tracked my problem down and it ultimately didn't come from X11. There was
a stale entry in '/etc/bashrc' that seemed to have the last word in some
settings. Removed the entry there and now my settings in '/etc/profile' and
'/root/.bash_profile' have their intended effects.

Thanks to all who pitched in.

 - Mills

John M. Mills
Staff Engineer
EMS Technologies
660 Engineering Drive
Norcross, GA 30092
770.263.9200 ext4882

-----Original Message-----
From: Yu, Jerry [mailto:Jerry.Yu at Voicecom.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:40 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] Where is X11 overwriting my environmentals?


For all users, 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclient
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*

# -----Original Message-----
# To: James Sumners; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: RE: [ale] Where is X11 overwriting my environmentals?
# 
# 
# James -
# 
# Thanks for writing.
# 
# From: James Sumners
# 
# >JS First, why would you be editing /etc/profile for a single user?
# 
# I'm editing it for all users. Its settings seem to be 
# overwritten so I was
# looking at the individual-user level. What I actually want is 
# all users to
# have the given setting, and just override it for _root_.
# 
# >JS Second, what distribution are you using? If you are using 
# Debian then
# >JS the preferred file to edit would be `~/.xsession`. I believe other
# >JS distributions honor the settings in `~/.xinitrc` as well.
# 
# It's an old RH-7.3, but your suggestions probably still apply.
# 
# >JS `man x 7`
# 
# Thanks - I went there but didn't recognize the answer to my question.
# 
# John M. Mills
# Staff Engineer
# EMS Technologies
# 660 Engineering Drive
# Norcross, GA 30092
# 770.263.9200 ext4882
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