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How do I get Netbeans 7.3.1 to see my environment variables on Mac OS X (10.8.3)?

I'd like to run Netbeans from the launcher and get it to see environment variables.

Background: I'm using netbeans for a rails project and have configured my devel database with configurations using environment variables. Unfortunately Netbeans appears unable to read those variables even when I list them in /etc/profile (for all users).

I can explicitly run Netbeans from the terminal: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans\ 7.3.1.app/Contents/MacOS/netbeans and that gets things to work but I'd much rather run it from the launcher if I can solve this problem.

Solution

  • You could define them in 

    /etc/launchd.conf

    and restart system. See this for example