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No that's not how that works. Environment variables are inherited from parent processes. If you just put that in a sibling process (like a terminal), it won't r
by chmod775 5y ago
No that's not how that works. Environment variables are inherited from parent processes. If you just put that in a sibling process (like a terminal), it won't run firefox with that variable if you run it from the GUI.
Your .bash_profile allows you to set up the environment for your entire session.
- jraph 5y agoI would not expect my desktop environment to run my .bash_profile. Especially when I don't even use bash as my default shell. I'm afraid each desktop environment probably has its specific way of adding environment variables.