Currently it says that you have to do `env-update && source /etc/profile`, but this will affect only current shell and its childs; it is required to restart entire X session for the changes to take effect "globaly" (not taking into account daemons). I think the chapter should be expanded with a note about that.
fixed... thanks
a change applied to the current shell affects only that shell's *childs*. not parents. for example, if i write 'export somevar=something' in a X terminal's shell, 'somevar' will be available only in shells/terminals opened *from* that terminal/shell. (1) if you open a parallel terminal (with the same parent as the first shell/terminal, in this case X's/WM's shell), 'somevar' won't be available, and more, (2) if you restart X, then 'somevar' will still be unavailable, as you actually restarted the parent shell, which was not affected by 'somevar'. jonathan, i think you have somehow complicated your statement (added <note>) in the guide, leading to incorrectness. so, as a conclusion, if i write 'source /etc/profile' in a terminal and then restart X, that 'source' command has no effect on the new X session and terminals/shells opened from it. to write something about restarting X, you should state something like: in a console (/dev/vc/*) write /etc/init.d/xdm stop && source /etc/profile && /etc/init.d/xdm start for changes to take effect.
fixed, again thanks, alin. i think what i had was right, but could be misleading
