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Revival-of-Lost-Art

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Registered: 2015-12-17

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[SOLVED] BSPWM configuration help

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm

In here under configuration, it says:
"Important: Make you sure environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set or your bspwmrc will not be found. This can be done by adding XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" and export XDG_CONFIG_HOME to your ~/.profile. "

I put
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
in my ~/.profile

but it isn't getting read and executed after i reboot for some reason.
After a reboot, I echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and it's still returns blank, in addition, printenv doesn't show XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/therue/.config either

any ideas?

i can run that line manually in the command line and then echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and it will work and get shown in printenv, but then that would only work until i restart again; I'm trying to put this in .profile so it gets run everytime the system startsup so the system will always know where bspwm's config file is located everytime automatically, like the bspwm wiki.

T_T

any help is appreciate. thanks in advance.

***********   EDIT   **************

solved by putting the export line in .bash_profile instead of .profile

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thanks Dandels, Jasonwryan, cvr, sheep

Last edited by Revival-of-Lost-Art (2016-03-18 06:58:35)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] BSPWM configuration help

Your ~/.profile is not being read when you login. Please include details of how you login and your shell initialisation files.

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