Am 23.03.2011 um 19:44 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
As I mentioned earlier, it has to do with X11.app inheriting a login shell environment from ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile ... which means it does not use ~/.bashrc. Non-login shells use ~/.bashrc. If you want your ~/.bashrc used in login shells as well, make sure you source it in your ~/.bash_profile
I'm not using bash, I'm true to tcsh. It works as described: What I set in ~/.login appears in the environment of the X clients. (The question stays: Why do I have to set the environment values twice?) And X11.app obviously knows the value of $HOME; why doesn't it launch its X clients in $HOME? GNU Emacs, FontForge, xterm – all are in /! X11.app has PWD=/Users/me. Why do the X clients forget it or set it to /? They have HOME=/Users/me set. -- Greetings Pete ~ o ~_\\_/\ ~ O O