[Xquartz-dev] Fwd: Environment passed to Applications-launched processes

Brian Bender zt4q4o402 at sneakemail.com
Fri Aug 29 07:21:12 PDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen
hanche-at-math.ntnu.no |Xquartz-dev/personal|
<...> wrote:

> I think the problem has nothing to do with what environment X11 gets,
> but that your xterms aren't running a login shell. To make sure they
> do, they must be started using  xterm -ls  or you need to have...

Right, I know I can work around it. But it is a difference in
behavior: launched processes usually inherit my fully set-up user
environment, unless X11.app has been started directly from the
application bundle (see my reply to myself about that).

Thanks,

 - Brian



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