[Xquartz-dev] Environment passed to Applications-launched processes

[Martin Costabel]

Brian Bender wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Martin Costabel
> costabel-at-wanadoo.fr |Xquartz-dev/personal|
> <...> wrote:
>> Starting /A/U/X11.app "directly", i.e. from the Finder gives a very
>> minimal environment to processes started from the Applications menu.
>> They simply inherit Finder's poor environment.
> 
> That was kind of my point, really -- I was wondering if X11.app is
> _explicitly_ setting a minimal path when it's started from the app
> bundle, overwriting what it inherited from the Finder, because it's
> not even including things in the Finder's path that are added from my
> /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/* entries.

I don't think the Finder cares about /etc/whatever. Upon login, it gets 
the environment it transmits to other apps from your 
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file if it exists.

-- 
Martin