[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:19, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> + Peter Collinson <pc at hillside.co.uk>:
>
>> If this is 'immutable' - then why not just have a tiny C program to  
>> do this? Would save all this grief.
>
> Indeed, since Contents/MacOS/X11 is only a wrapper to be called from  
> Xquartz, it may make sense to move some of the decision making out  
> of the wrapper script and into Xquartz.

Not really.  We're talking about getting the environment variables  
that are setup by your login shell into X11.app... The only way to do  
that would be to have X11.app itself somehow parse your login scripts  
(hard) or have it started from a shell that already has the  
environment (easier).

> I am sure the thought has occured to Jeremy too? I have certainly  
> been thinking it. Thanks for saying it out loud.

Yeah, we were doing that to a very minimal extent before by using some  
ugly use of /usr/bin/login and /bin/sh -c ...