On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:02, Dave Ray wrote: > On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > >>>> IMO this should not be necessary, because up to Leopard ~/.MacOSX/ >>>> environment.plist is read when you log in. Then all processes >>>> inherit this environment. The X clients are a bit different and >>>> used to inherit their environment from X11.app ? until recently! >>> >>> Nope. X11 clients do inherit their environment from X11.app, since >>> that's the process that forks and execs them. That has not changed. >> >> Yes, right! The problem is that X11.app now does not inherit the set >> environment and passes something not so useful to the X clients. Which >> needs to be corrected. Particularly the manner to set / als current >> working directory. $HOME is correct. > > Thank you Peter for being the first on the list to answer my question, after > a zillion posts on the topic.
Did you miss my response to you? Or did you miss my response to him that his statement is actually incorrect. > So the problem is not a config issue on my machine, others are seeing it. > This helps me enormously. 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 > I am also using ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as a work-around, to make sure > the right ENV gets passed to X11 when it is launched by launchd. Use ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)... *especially* if you're on Leopard because environment.plist does not get set in LaunchAgents, so if X11.app is forked from /usr/X11/bin/X from /usr/X11/bin/xinit from launchd, you will not have the environment.plist environment, but you *WILL* have your login shell environment. > I agree with Jeremy that it is not the best solution, just the only one > available now. That file passes its ENV to every launchd process, where I > really only need it to be passed to X11. Actually, it does *NOT* pass its environment through launchd (on Leopard). --Jeremy _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
