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

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 14:50, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> 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.

Yes, it is a known bug that is being worked on, but it's outside the  
scope of X11.

> 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.

Yes, I was just mentioning it for completeness.
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