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Bug 341998 - gnome-terminal not made aware of http_proxy preference changes made post-login
gnome-terminal not made aware of http_proxy preference changes made post-login
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-16 16:30 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-05-17 08:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-16 16:30:11 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/40360

"If network proxy preferences are changed after logging in, "echo $http_proxy" returns nothing. In order for the setting to take effect, the user must logout and then login. After dong so, the variable is set appropriately."
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-05-16 19:41:34 UTC 
This is a known problem with the panel I'd say.
Comment 2 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore 2006-05-16 20:55:08 UTC 
You do not have to logout. You simply have to start a new terminal screen, be it a new window, new tab or whole new process. And there is no reasonable way to fix this, anyway... Feel free to reopen if you have one.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-17 06:29:51 UTC 
just curious, why is there no way to make an export when the gconf key is changed?
Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-05-17 07:50:15 UTC 
Because whatever process is running inside the terminal is another process, and it's not our business to mess with its env vars.  One can of course attach to that process using pthread api and do a setenv, but that's a horrible bug as well as hack.
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-17 08:23:44 UTC 
fair enough, will comment on the distro bug about that ;)