System wide proxy settings without gnome and kde

Hi,
this is my software stack:
linux
X
openbox
chromium
my university had the great idea to cencor and filter the internet so that students can't do bad stuff and besides that can't do anything at all. They even block ping and ssh connections.. but that's another story.
here are my problems with that:
chomium devs seem to live in a very small world in which only kde and gnome exist, because these envirenments are the only way to let chromium know that it should use a proxy server.
I've written a small script that works perfectly for most of my stuff. here it is:
$ cat ~/.proxyon
export http_proxy='proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:3128'
export https_proxy='proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:3128'
export ftp_proxy='ftp-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:21'
export socks5_proxy='socks5-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de:1080'
export HTTP_PROXY=http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=https_proxy
export FTP_PROXY=ftp_proxy
export SOCKS5_PROXY=socks5_proxy
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url 'http://proxy.fh-brandenburg.de/proxy.pac'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled true
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host 'proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 3128
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host 'proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 3128
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host 'ftp-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 21
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'socks5-proxy.fh-brandenburg.de'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 1080
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts "['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '*.fh-brandenburg.de' ]"
to start chromium i've made another script to test the proxy behavier:
$ cat ~/start_chromium.sh
source ~/.proxyon && echo $http_proxy && chromium
This should work because I set every proxy variable I'm aware of and the script spits out the correct proxy server but chromium still don't uses any proxies. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm out of ideas..

delta24 wrote:Try creating a script in /etc/profile.d named proxy.sh having all the proxy config.
The behavier I want to achieve is that I can hot swap proxy and non proxy networks without restarting the browser. This works under gnome because chromium reads the proxy config from gconf which gets updated on network change but this doesn't work without gnome.
Most of the time I'm on networks without proxies. Only in university I need them. A simple switch to activate them when needed would be nice.

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3.6.7
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Windows XP
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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*-Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
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*Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_18 for Mozilla browsers
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