Environment variable in LXSession autostart file?

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Anyone know how to use environment variables or something similar in an LXSession autostart file?  My initial attempts seem to have failed :-(.  I'm creating a Chromium kiosk noticeboard and need an easy way to configure the website and don't want to have users editing the LXSession autostart file directly.

Marcelo Pacheco · Answer

The way to do it is with .xinitrc. Notice if .xinitrc exists, its responsible to start the desktop environment (startlxde/startkde/...). I tried to just set TERM and exit and my XDE login just crashed.
#!/bin/bash
export TERM=linux
exec startlxde

Trying to run a child process to set the environment is futile as it happily changes its own environment then exit, leaving the parent process environment unchanged.

Paul D Smith · Answer

Could not make this work directly but the launching a shell script from within the autostart file does work and it can contain environment variables.  However remember to launch via a shell so...

# In .../autostart place this
@/bin/bash  /usr/bin/script_with_env_vars.sh
#
# Calling directly will not work
@/usr/bin/script_with_env_vars.sh - fails!!!

Environment variable in LXSession autostart file?

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