[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Martin Costabel]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Dec 18, 2008, at 23:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
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> 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).

I understand it now: The script is ~/bin/saveenv, and the "~" is now no 
longer interpreted as /Users/costabel as it used to.

The new system also obsoletes all those FAQs that explain how to get a 
decent environment into the apps started from the Applications menu. 
They typically said to place something like

   source login-startup-script.sh; app-to-run

into the Application menu command line. Such shell commands won't work 
any more, which is a pity.

-- 
Martin