Lumina and env variables

[Ken Moore]

On Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:33:41 AM EST, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone know how to set an environment variable so that 
> it's visible when running Lumina applications? Currently I have 
> QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME set in .profile and .cshrc but these are 
> not visible when I run qt5ct from the Lumina launch menu. They 
> only take effect when I run qt5ct from the command line 
> (Konsole).
>
> This is quite strange because I start Lumina with startx and my 
> .xinitrc looks like this
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/start-lumina-desktop
>
> I would have hoped that these environment variables should be 
> inherited by the Lumina process and subsequently by all 
> applications launched from the menu. Unless something overwrites 
> them later?
>
> Thanks
> GrzegorzJ
>

One other additional comment about setting environment variables for 
Lumina.

Lumina provides a special environment variable configuration file 
(~/.config/lumina-desktop/envsettings.conf) which is just a 
<variable>=<value> list of environment variables to apply to the desktop 
session (one variable per line).

The desktop monitors that file and will automatically re-apply env changes 
as needed when you make changes to that file. It cannot change the 
environment for applications that are already running, but it can change 
the default environment for applications that you launch later on.

-- 
~~ Ken Moore ~~
ken at ixsystems.com