[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 release candidate

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 00:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 1.) I start X11 ("XQuartz 2.1.2 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple6)",  
> latest rc as of yesterday, with the PATH fix in startx) by  
> triggering launchd with some command like xrdb or ssh -Y and  
> starting an xterm from the remote machine.
>
> 2.) I select "Terminal" from the Applications menu of X11. An xterm  
> pops up with my usual tcsh prompt, so my tcsh startup scripts must -  
> somehow - have been executed
>
> 3.) `ps x` shows "/usr/bin/login -fp costabel /bin/sh -c xterm"
>
> 4.) `printenv PATH` in the xterm gives
>
> /usr/X11/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/ 
> bin:/usr/X11/bin
>
> I have no idea where this PATH is coming from. Not from my shell  
> startup scripts, in any case.
>
> I do have, in fact, a file  ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist on this  
> account, which sets an entirely different PATH, as does my usual tcsh
> startup procedure. Removing or changing ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist  
> does not change the situation.

Define "my usual tcsh startup procedure".  What is PATH in Terminal.app?

>> Applications menu are started via /usr/bin/login -f ...., so your  
>> tcsh  environment will be handed off to that application.   
>> Unfortunately  XQuartz itself wont have the right environment, but  
>> that is fixable by  setting up PATH right in your {/etc/,~/.}profile
>
> I don't care about the environment of XQuartz; does it play any role  
> at all?

Yes, it's inherited from by applications you start from the  
Applications menu.

> What I care about is the environment transmitted to the programs run  
> by the Applications menu of X11.

That is XQuartz's environment.

> And this used to work correctly in previous releases. I don't have  
> time now to check what exactly it did in raw Leopard X11 and in each  
> one of your earlier releases, but I suspect that /usr/bin/login on  
> Leopard is buggy and does not do what its documentation says.'

Can you please take the few steps I iterated in the previous email and  
tell me the result.

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