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

Brian Bender zt4q4o402 at sneakemail.com
Tue Sep 2 11:55:53 PDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Martin Costabel costabel-at-wanadoo.fr
|Xquartz-dev/personal| <...> wrote:
> 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.

Doh, you're right. For whatever reason, I had thought that paths.d
(path_helper in general) had replaced the environment.plist
functionality, but it looks like it's only for shells. Sorry for the
noise, everyone...

 - Brian


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