.gnomerc does not run

[kornelix]

I want to define some environment variables that are available for applications started from a gnome desktop launcher. Following suggestions found in this forum, I put the definitions in ~./gnomerc. They are ignored. I also made it executable and included the #!/bin/bash header, but that made no difference. The same export statements in ~./bashrc work fine, but only for terminal sessions. I also tried .gtkrc and .gtkrc-2.0 (as suggested in another message) but this was no different. None of them work. I did log out/in for each trial.

Help.

[ayoli]

Originally Posted by kornelix I want to define some environment variables that are available for applications started from a gnome desktop launcher. Following suggestions found in this forum, I put the definitions in ~./gnomerc. They are ignored. I also made it executable and included the #!/bin/bash header, but that made no difference. The same export statements in ~./bashrc work fine, but only for terminal sessions. I also tried .gtkrc and .gtkrc-2.0 (as suggested in another message) but this was no different. None of them work. I did log out/in for each trial. Help.

The exact file name is

~/.gnomerc

(do not forget the leading dot, it's a hidden file)
then you can export variable like this

export VAR_NAME=value;
export VAR_NAME="string"

no spaces between variable name and the equal sign
no $ before the var name.
I don't think the file need to be executable, simple read access for all should be enough.
You have to logout/login gnome each time you change something in this file and want to see the changes.

[kornelix]

Thanks, but I am already doing exactly what you specified.

~./gnomerc is in the same directory as ~./bashrc and the export statements are the same. .bashrc works and .gnomerc does not (apps started from desktop launchers see the variables as undefined).

I cannot rule out some stupid mistake but I have looked and looked...

[ayoli]

Originally Posted by kornelix Thanks, but I am already doing exactly what you specified. ~./gnomerc is in the same directory as ~./bashrc and the export statements are the same. .bashrc works and .gnomerc does not (apps started from desktop launchers see the variables as undefined). I cannot rule out some stupid mistake but I have looked and looked...

paste the output of:

ls ~/.gnomerc && cat ~/.gnomerc

and are you running a gnome session or do you another environment (xfce, ...) ?

[kornelix]

~ $: ls ~/.gnomerc
/home/mico/.gnomerc
~ $: cat ~/.gnomerc
#!/bin/bash
export HISTFILESIZE=10000
export HISTSIZE=10000
export MALLOC_CHECK=2
export programs="/home2/mico/programs"
alias beroot="/home/mico/beroot/beroot"
alias lang="/home2/mico/programs/shell/setlocale"

I have figured out that the above export statements are indeed being executed. It is the alias statements that are not taking. If I try using the command 'beroot' in a launcher, I get "command not found". If I use it in a terminal it works as expected (since .bashrc has the same definitions).

So the real question is: why no alias command in a launcher?
Or, is there a way?

thanks

[ayoli]

Originally Posted by kornelix ~ $: ls ~/.gnomerc /home/mico/.gnomerc ~ $: cat ~/.gnomerc #!/bin/bash export HISTFILESIZE=10000 export HISTSIZE=10000 export MALLOC_CHECK=2 export programs="/home2/mico/programs" alias beroot="/home/mico/beroot/beroot" alias lang="/home2/mico/programs/shell/setlocale" I have figured out that the above export statements are indeed being executed. It is the alias statements that are not taking. If I try using the command 'beroot' in a launcher, I get "command not found". If I use it in a terminal it works as expected (since .bashrc has the same definitions). So the real question is: why no alias command in a launcher? Or, is there a way? thanks

Why not just make a link to /usr/local/bin like taht :

sudo ln -sf /home/mico/beroot/beroot /usr/local/bin

[kornelix]

Thanks Ayoli for your help. Your last post sent me on a wild ride. I tried a variation of your suggestion:
+ I created a directory ~/bin and put my program beroot there
+ I set PATH in ~/.gnomerc: export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
+ I made a desktop launcher with beroot as the command

After logging out and back in, my desktop was locked up and no launchers appeared on the desktop. I bailed out with ctrl-alt-backspace and logged into my escape hatch root account. I cycled in and out again to be sure of the problem. Rebooted, no help. Then from root I deleted .gnomerc, which was no help. Then I deleted some files where gnome saves states and sessions. That fixed the problem and my gnome desktop came back. There was a huge nautilus log file, from the common problem of nautilus looping and writing debug messages (this comes and goes ever since 7.10, and I am astounded it has not been fixed by now). Note that I never ran beroot or any other non-gnome program. This adventure came solely from gnome.

So I am giving up on this project. I have again been given a lesson that I have been given many times already: don't be adventurous and do uncommon things, because you will run into untested code and trash your system.