09-04-2008
The contents of /etc/profile and .profile are only read by a login shell i.e. the shell that is spawned when you login to your system. If you are using bash try putting the required variables in your .bashrc, or in .kshrc if you are using ksh. Also you should export the variables.
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PSI(1) User Commands PSI(1)
NAME
Psi - jabber client
SYNOPSIS
psi [--profile=PROFILE] [--remote|--choose-profile]
DESCRIPTION
[--status=STATUS [--status-message=MSG]] [--uri=URI]
Psi - The Cross-Platform Jabber/XMPP Client For Power Users
OPTIONS
--choose-profile
Display Choose Profile dialog on startup. Cannot be used together with --remote.
-h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
--profile=PROFILE
Activate program instance running specified profile. Otherwise, open new instance using this profile (unless used together with
--remote).
--remote
Force remote-control mode. If there is no running instance, or --profile was specified but there is no instance using it, exit with-
out doing anything. Cannot be used with --choose-profile.
--status=STATUS
Set status. STATUS must be one of `online', `chat', `away', `xa', `dnd', `offline'.
--status-message=MSG
Set status message. Must be used together with --status.
--uri=URI
Open XMPP URI. (e.g. xmpp:someone@example.org?chat) For security reasons, this must be the last option.
-v, --version
Show version information and exit.
SEE ALSO
Go to <http://psi-im.org/> for more information about Psi.
Psi 0.14 January 2012 PSI(1)