Issue: XQuartz only launches bash and not tcsh. Environment: Brand spanking new retina-15" laptop running a fresh install of Mountain Lion. XQuartz 2.7.2 desired shell: tcsh What I've experienced: When running Terminal, tcsh is correctly launched. XQuartz launches (i.e. XTerm) bash. So, evidently the login shell that launches X11 is not being run - the script that looks at what ${SHELL} is set to. I have also created a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist the contents of this file is: --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>SHELL</key> <string>/bin/tcsh</string> </dict> </plist> --- So, evidently, this is not being read either. Finally, when I manually launch X11 (XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11), things work correctly - xterm comes up with tcsh as my shell. Any suggestions? mike goldweber