[arch-general] Setting global environment variable

[Damjan Georgievski]

> Taking another look at this. It doesn't really work the way I had
> hoped. I can set the $http_proxy variable when connecting to the VPN
> but the variable is only valid from the bash shell it was called from.
> Is there no way to make existing processes acknowledge the variable?

no, environment variables are only inherited from the parent process

> The main idea behind this is so that I can leave my browser running
> whether I'm connected to the VPN or not. Currently I have firefox with
> setup to connect to the proxy and I use another browser whenever I'm
> not connected (rather than changing the firefox network settings
> everytime).

Install the foxy-proxy extension for Firefox, it'll allow you to
quickly change the proxy



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damjan