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Blaze Tama
Asked: 2014-11-08 06:30:54 +0800 CST

export SWT_GTK3=0 on terminal, does it effect your system?

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This question is related to my other question : Full dark theme for eclipse Luna in Ubuntu 14.04

So, i should run export SWT_GTK3=0 on a sh script for eclipse, but i mistakenly run it from my ubuntu's terminal.

I dont feel something changed for now, but i would like to make sure my system will be OK since i will need it in the near future.

Does running export SWT_GTK3=0 dangerous?

What does it do?

How to reset SWT_GTK3 to its default value?

Thanks a lot for your time.

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If the only thing you did was running export SWT_GTK3=0 then you did nothing permanent. What the command does is to set an environment variable SWT_GTK3 and set its value to 0 for that terminal session only. If you close the terminal window and open a new one it will be gone or reset.

    If you want to unset it in the current terminal window you can also do: unset env SWT_GTK3.

    If you want to see the current value of an env. variable: echo $SWT_GTK3 or for example to see your current PATH variable echo $PATH.

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