[Xquartz-dev] MacPorts XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple32) has problems with $PATH

[Martin Costabel]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 16.02.2009 um 16:07 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
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>> X11.app inherits its path from your default shell.
> 
> This cannot be true. 

It is true, but you are not looking at X11.app's environment if you are 
in ~/.xinitrc. In ~/.xinitrc (or in the scripts inside ~/.xinitrc.d/, 
which is the currently recommended replacement for ~/.xinitrc), you get 
an environment inherited directly from /usr/X11/bin/startx as started by 
launchd.

This is a minimalist environment that does not take into account *any* 
shell startup scripts, and not even ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.

If you want an environment in ~/.xinitrc, you have to create it yourself.

-- 
Martin