[Xquartz-dev] env variables and launchd problem

Dave Ray apple at jonive.com
Wed Mar 23 17:33:11 PDT 2011


Peter Dyballa wrote:

> > I'm not using bash, I'm true to tcsh. It works as described: What I  
> > set in ~/.login appears in the environment of the X clients. (The  
> > question stays: Why do I have to set the environment values twice?)  
> > And X11.app obviously knows the value of $HOME; why doesn't it launch  
> > its X clients in $HOME? GNU Emacs, FontForge, xterm – all are in /!  
> > X11.app has PWD=/Users/me. Why do the X clients forget it or set it  
> > to /? They have HOME=/Users/me set.

I'm observing the same thing. My shells launched in X11 are dropping me in at the root level. My ENV looks correct in those shells. $HOME=/Users/davidray.

Dave




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