[Xquartz-dev] env variables and launchd problem

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 14:24, Peter Dyballa wrote:

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> Am 23.03.2011 um 19:44 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
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>> As I mentioned earlier, it has to do with X11.app inheriting a login shell environment from ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile ... which means it does not use ~/.bashrc.  Non-login shells use ~/.bashrc.  If you want your ~/.bashrc used in login shells as well, make sure you source it in your ~/.bash_profile
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> I'm not using bash, I'm true to tcsh. It works as described: What I set in ~/.login

which is analogous to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile for bash users

> appears in the environment of the X clients. (The question stays: Why do I have to set the environment values twice?)

And the answer remains, "you don't" ;>

> And X11.app obviously knows the value of $HOME; why doesn't it launch its X clients in $HOME?

Because it doesn't do anything with $HOME.  There is no chdir() nor use of $HOME in the server itself.

> 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 just don't see that behavior at all...