On Sep 26, 2008, at 10:01 AM, xquartz-dev-request@lists.macosforge.org wrote:

And to make matters more interesting, variables set in your .bashrc will probably appear when you auto-launch, but not when you launch from the utilities directory.

Thanks for the info, I'm looking into it and will try to figure out a solution.

I found a simple, stupid solution; since I use tcsh, I just started putting "tcsh -c '<command>'" in my X11 Applications menu. Then the command inherits the full environment of my default shell, and I don't have to worry about it. Dumb, but functional. -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory