[LBo] PATH env var.

Geoff Jones geoffjones99 at ntlworld.com
Thu Feb 8 15:56:08 CET 2007


Anita Lewis wrote:
> The documentation for gdm:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.16/configuration.html
>
> It says that gdm sources /etc/profile.  Obviously the distro has made
> changes.  I got the impression you are using debian since you have user
> debian in one of the command lines you offered.  It seems odd that they
> would have changed this.

Not sure that is correct - the first line of the gdm doc states -
> System configuration is stored in <share>/gdm/defaults.conf and the
> intention is that this file can be stored on a shared filesystem so that
> sysadmins can have a single file to modify to control configuration for
> multiple machines.
That is where I eventually figured out what to adjust for a "global" change.

Yes, I am running Deb Etch as main distro - but also have Edgy for 
comparison / educational purposes.

Geoff.


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