On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Dave Ray wrote:
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
I'm observing the same thing on shells that are launched by my window manager (e17). Those shells are dropping me in at the root level, but my ENV looks correct in those shells. $HOME=/Users/davidray. > > Shells/terminals launched by X11.app (from the Applications menu) are correctly dropping me into my home directory.
Ok, this is likely because your WM is launched from xinit which is launched by launchd which probably has PWD=/
Yes that might explain it. The wm binary I launch in ~/.xinit.d/99-wm.sh is not the actual window manager, it invokes the wm, possibly through xinit.
I wonder, would this also explain why an xterm launched from ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh (with no window manager) does not have the expected ENV?
I wouldn't say "does not have the expected ENV" ... as I would expect it to have an environment that is inherited from xinit... which is (probably) different from the environment inherited from X11.app
The missing ENV in that xterm correlates with the WM issues. When I add ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, or /etc/launchd.conf, the problem goes away for whatever I am running in ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh, whether it be that xterm or a WM.
Yes, because on SL, LaunchAgents started inheriting your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
Is there a good way for me to pass my ENV to whatever is launched by ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh, without passing the ENV to every single launchd process?
Yes. echo ". ~/.profile" > ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh echo "cd $HOME" >> ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh