[Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> 
> > 5. If I run a program via F3 settiong environment variables doesn't work.
> >    For example this one doesn't work: LANG=en_US gkrellm. How do I run a
> >    program with modified environment?
> 
> In a released version, you can't, but I just changed this in SVN.
> Apparently at least the version of bash that I currently have (and
> that's good enough for me) can automatically 'exec' the last command
> in a sequence of commands to -c so that we don't leave useless shells
> laying around consuming resources even if Ion doesn't add 'exec' prefix
> to every command executed.
> 

In simple cases you could use /usr/bin/env, present on most systems.

  env LANG=en_US gkrellm

should probably do the trick... I just tried (not with gkrellm), and
it works for me...

Matt

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Matt Hellige                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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