@raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-09-12 18:27 UTC
@fell@ma.fellr.net it's a little more complicated for environment variables, the RC files that define them are scripts that execute when a new program or shell starts so a lot of them are defined dynamically, not just a X=Y in a config file. You could make a GUI that gives you the ability to statically define overrides for a user but it would have the downside of often breaking programs in unexpected ways for instance with PATH while that seems safe changing it to a static value will break most python tools
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@raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-09-12 18:31
@fell@ma.fellr.net could definitely have a GUI user tool that lets you set something, but it would definitely be a case of "use at your own risk" as a lot of environment variables can be contextual from how the shell was launched so just dumping current values to the GUI may not reflect what the values would be if a program or a bash shell were launched.