xfce4: Keyboard application shortcut to run emacs does not export the current user's environment variables

Question

I have emacs bound to Ctrl-Alt E. I also have some environment variables exported in ~/.bashrc. When running M-x getenv, I get different environment variables not defined in ~/.bashrc

Answer 1

~/.bashrc is normally only sourced for interactive shells. Put your variables in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile.