Gnome applications and .bash_profile

Saturday, 31 October 2009

It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible 
to applications started in gnome but not via a shell.  For example
evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE.  

But how?  Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution -- no
shells here.

 1710 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
14284 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/Disp
14285 tty7     Ss+    0:43      \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-
14366 ?        S      0:00      \_ pam: gdm-password
14413 ?        Ssl    0:00          \_ gnome-session
14523 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ metacity
14536 ?        S      0:00              \_ gnome-panel
14537 ?        S      0:00              \_ nautilus
14542 ?        S      0:00              \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/run-mozilla.s
14651 ?        Sl     0:41              |   \_ /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/firefox
14543 ?        Sl     0:17              \_ evolution

What am I missing?

Thanks - jon