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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.09.2008 um 16:01 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

> And to make matters more interesting, variables set in your .bashrc
> will probably appear when you auto-launch, but not when you launch
> from the utilities directory.

I'd prefer to have ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist working. It's quite  
easy to define a necessary (personal default) set of environment  
variables. These can be used (and potentially modified) in shell RC  
files by using the defaults command, which allows to read from the  
file. A change in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist then shows up in the  
next shell created.

To me ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is like the primal meter bar at the  
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres, France. It's a  
single point of failure, and it's the single file that I need to edit  
for a change. Shell RC files are a secondary problem.

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   Pete

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