[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 released

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Sat Jan 12 14:51:37 PST 2008


Because they might choose a shell that doesn't work as:

/usr/bin/login -fp <username> <shell> -c <application to run>

And I don't want to deal with that possibility.

On Jan 12, 2008, at 14:29, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Why not just read the login shell out of the user's password entry  
> and use that?
>
>
>
> On 1/12/08, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> It's basically the same as the last rc, but I added in a  
>> 'login_shell'
>> option that users of tcsh can set to '/bin/tcsh' so applications
>> launched from the Applications menu get the tcsh environment instead
>> of the bash environment:
>>
>> defaults write org.x.X11 login_shell /bin/tcsh
>>
>> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.2
>>
>> --Jeremy
>>
>
>
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed at mail.com>
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