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curmudgeon
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 Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject: Colorfgbg |
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| When I su in X (either with or without the login option), I am losing the environment variable COLORFGBG, which is causing problems in certain applications. My first question is "why is this happening?" (I am guessing that I am missing something basic here), and my second question is "does some way exist to keep this variable whenever I become root?" (yes, I could just set it manually each time, but takes away the fun of learning something new :) ). |
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ferreirafm
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hi curmudgeon,
I have never experienced what you have described. However, why not use the global profile to set it?
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curmudgeon
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| ferreirafm wrote: | | I have never experienced what you have described. However, why not use the global profile to set it? |
It's easy to set a static value that way, but the variable depends on the terminal colors, which aren't constant for my uses. I want some way of just carrying over whatever I have set at the time when I become root. |
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ppurka
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Does the -p option to su preserve this environment variable?
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