Re: Setting enviroment variables

[Joe Kelsey <joek mail flyingcroc net>]

Kai Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where is the place to set the PATH, so if I would like to run a program in
> my $HOME/bin from the run dialog (Alt+F2) I do not have to give the
> whole path.
>
> (The true reason for this question is: I do not want gnome-terminal be a
> login shell. Thus it reads not every time .bash_profile where normally
> the PATH and other global varialbes for a login session are set. So
> everytime I have to type: ~/bin/foo to run a program because it is not
> in the PATH).

GDM sources ~/.profile as part of Xsession.  Therefore, all subprocesses 
of gnome-session inheirit the environment set up by GDM/Xsession.

You need to rename .bash-profile to .profile.

/Joe