[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 23:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
> The current version in 2.3.2-rc4 is a regression for tcsh users,  
> because it not only does not run a login shell in the first xterm it  
> starts, but it does not transmit a login environment to the commands  
> started from X11's "Applications" menu.

While that is a regression, I'd like to point out that it is not wrong  
behavior.  It is consistent with the *nix boxes out there that use  
gdm, etc.

> Actually, I don't know how these commands in the "Applications" menu  
> are currently run.

they're run with fork() exec(...)

> My test script that I used for probing this writes the output of  
> `printenv` and of `ps xwwej` to some file in /tmp/. With rc4, it  
> does not seem to be run at all

were you running something that actually starts a shell?  If you run  
'nedit' for example, then you shouldn't expect it to create a shell  
just to run nedit (which was the case before).