[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 release candidate

[Martin Costabel]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Great, thanks.
> 
> I'm uploading a new rc now which adds X11 to PATH within startx.  I'll  
> wait to hear back from you before I push it out.
> 
> I want to start the server via '/bin/bash --login /usr/X11/bin/startx'  
> rather than just '/usr/bin/startx' because I want to make sure that / 
> etc/profile and ~/.profile are sourced to setup the user's  
> environment.  Not doing so would cause $PATH to be just "/usr/X11/bin:/ 
> usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin".  Thus if they use macports and have  
> 'rxvt' as one of their applications in X11's Applications menu,  they'll 
> need to give the full path to the application.  This is  actually the 
> way the 10.5 shipped X11 behaved, but I regard this as a  bug and fixed 
> it by using 'login -f <username> /bin/sh -c /usr/X11/bin/ Xquartz' to 
> exec the server within server-main.c.  That carried over  to a bash 
> --login in the current configuration.
> 
> I would think a good way to use the user's preferred shell's  
> environment to start the server would be via '$SHELL -l /usr/X11/bin/ 
> startx', but I'm not sure $SHELL is going to be the right (or any)  
> value within launchd, and not all shells will allow '-l <command>'.   
> tcsh doesn't... so I'm going to stick with doing /bin/bash --login / 
> usr/X11/bin/startx and just put X11 in startx's PATH.  I don't like it  
> because it's ugly and causes a redundant entry, but I'll live...
> 
> actually... maybe doing this within startx would be better than just  
> prepending /u/X/bin to the PATH:
> if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
>     eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
> fi
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 16:11, Jamie Kennea wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 8 Jan 2008, at 7:04 pm, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> Jamie, do you think this might be the case (doing an upgrade  
>>> install) for your system as well?
>>
>>
>> The machine I tried this on is a clean, new iMac, so I would have  
>> thought the /etc/profile should be the correct one for Leopard,  
>> rather than some old one hanging around. Little had been done to the  
>> machine apart from sticking Office on it and setting it up to use  our 
>> XServe for home directories.
>>
>> I'll try to get to the machine tomorrow and check it out.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jamie
> 
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