The reason is that applications you double-click are launched as children of WindowServer, which is not part of your shell login environment. Environment variables set in shell login files are only set when you run those shells and processes you launch from them. If you want to set environment variables for your entire GUI console session you need to put them in a property list at ~/.MacOSX/ environment.plist. One unfortunate thing is that you can't reference previously set values for variables using a $ sign in this file. More information:
<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html> Hope this helps, Jim On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Dan Higgins wrote: > Hi Jorge, > > I have some more information on your problem. > > When I execute the Kepler-1.0.0beta1 application on a PPC Mac by > double clicking 'Kepler-1.0.0beta1', I can reproduce the problem that > you reported. However, there is also a script for launching Kepler in > the distribution called 'kepler.sh'. If I open kepler from the > terminal > using with './kepler.sh' with X11 running and DISPLAY set, then > there is > no error and the linear regression example works and displays a > plot! I > do NOT understand why the behavior should depend on exactly how Kepler > is launched! (Perhaps something in how the ENV variables are passed to > the app.) > > In any case, you might want to try launching Kepler from Terminal > with the shell script and see if that works for you. > > Dan > ____________________________________________ James P. Balhoff National Evolutionary Synthesis Center Duke University 2024 West Main St., Suite A200 Durham, NC 27705 USA
