[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 release candidate

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 14:56, Greg Parker wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> Ok, it seems this isn't working for me here...  I'll debug it  
>> later, but if you're interested in this working to inherit tcsh  
>> login environments, please try to figure out a way to do it as I'm - 
>> ><- this close to giving up on it and saying "setup your PATH in / 
>> etc/profile" as a workaround =/.  Note that you will still have the  
>> proper tcsh environment exported to applications started from X,  
>> just not X itself.
>
> Why should the X itself get any login shell environment? No other  
> Mac applications do.

Because XQuartz's environment is inherited by all child processes  
(which means it should reflect the user's environmernt).  As a more  
immediate effect, $PATH is searched through for applications launched  
from the Applications menu... so macports, fink, gentoo/alt, /usr/ 
local, etc applications need their full path provided (and not have a  
complete environment when launched).

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