Re: [fluid-dev] Defining a standard directory for soundfonts Was: First Try Failure

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Wednesday 07 September 2011, David Henningsson wrote:
> OpenSuse:
> Directory: /usr/share/sounds/sf2
> File: N/A, but can be set by user through a SOUNDFONT_FILES environment 
> variable

It is not an environment variable. It is a shell script variable, used by an 
init script that sources a  configuration file located in /etc.

The interesting part here is the configuration file. A text file in your /etc 
directory that defines some system wide settings (for all users) that usually 
may be overrided by configuration files in each user's $HOME. This is what 
TiMidity++ does, for instance, without needing environment variables.

Regards,
Pedro