Apple's "X11 for Mac OS X" lives in bash.
I was still stuck thinking tcsh-like thoughts. Apple changed the default shell to bash starting in 10.2 but that only applies to NEW USERS, not existing ones. The problem is, regardless of what shell you're using, Apple's "X11 for Mac OS X" lives in bash... so you have to deal with it. I took the big leap and changed my default shell to bash... but my .bashrc wasn't being sourced. I tinkered about and did some research and I'm not clear on why it won't source my .bashrc but I did fix the problem overall: I edited /etc/profile and relaunched X11... and IT WORKED! X11 can find everything and it actually respects my .xinitrc file now. Notice that bash uses a slightly different syntax...
PATH="$PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:~/bin:~/sbin:~/usr/bin:~/usr/sbin" PATH="$PATH:~/usr/local/bin:~/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin" PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin" PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/sbin:/sw/bin/mldonkey-distrib" export PATH
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