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NAME

icewm-env - icewm environment configuration file

SYNOPSIS

$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/env
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/env
$HOME/.icewm/env
/etc/icewm/env
/usr/share/icewm/env

DESCRIPTION

icewm-session(1) loads additional environment variables from the file
env before it does anything else. These variables are then propagated
to all other processes, including icewm(1), via their environment.

FORMAT

Each line is subjected to POSIX shell expansion by wordexp(3).
Comment lines starting by a hash-sign ("#") are ignored.
icewm-session(1) will load those expanded lines that contain a name,
followed by an equals sign, followed by the value (which may be
empty).

The word unset begins a line with names to be removed from the
environment.

EXAMPLES

# This is a comment.
# And another.

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="ICEWM"
XDG_MENU_PREFIX="unexicon-"

START_DATE=`date`
START_FROM=`pwd`

FILES

icewm-session(1) looks for the env file in the following locations:

$ICEWM_PRIVCFG/env
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/env
$HOME/.icewm/env
/etc/icewm/env
/usr/share/icewm/env

The locations are searched in the order listed; the first file found
is read and the remainder ignored.

AUTHOR

Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.

LICENSE

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See
the COPYING file in the distribution.

icewm 3.6.0 2024-06-16 ICEWM-ENV(5)