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Customizing startup of the Graphical Environment

Using environment variables

When you start a Graphical Environment session, the $DISPLAY, $HOME, and $PATH. environment variables are set. When you run the Desktop client, the $LANG environment variable is also set.


NOTE: If the $LANG variable is not set to the appropriate locale, you must do so using the International Settings Manager. For more information, see ``Specifying the locale''.

The $PATH and $HOME environment variables are actually set when you first log in, whether through a multiscreen running getty or through scologin. However, the X server modifies the $PATH variable to include the /usr/bin/X11 directory.

The $DISPLAY and $LANG environment variables are described below:


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