[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>:

> The following is tested on bash, tcsh, ksh, zsh login shells, and 
> in a directory with spaces in its name. In all cases it transmits a 
> login environment to X11.bin. This is the X11 wrapper script, not 
> the ~/.x11run user script, which will be superfluous with this.
>
>  #!/bin/bash --login
>  export cmd=$(dirname "$0")/X11.bin
>  export args="${@}"
>  exec -l "$SHELL" -c 'exec "$cmd" "$args"'

That won't work with es and rc, because double quotes aren't special 
to those shells. They can put lists of strings, rather than single 
strings, in variables, but the way they export such values in the 
environment is by separating the words with SOH (^A) characters, and 
I guess you don't really want to try to implement that from bash.

If the above method is used (and I am not necessarily opposed to 
this), one should check first that $SHELL is indeed one of those 
shells you mentioned. Otherwise, it seems better to du the .x11run 
thing or, if that fails, fall back on bash.

- Harald