On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Dave Ray wrote: > Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > >>> I'm observing the same thing on shells that are launched by my window >> manager (e17). Those shells are dropping me in at the root level, but my >> ENV looks correct in those shells. $HOME=/Users/davidray. > > >> Shells/terminals launched by X11.app (from the Applications menu) are >> correctly dropping me into my home directory. >> >> Ok, this is likely because your WM is launched from xinit which is >> launched by launchd which probably has PWD=/ > > Yes that might explain it. The wm binary I launch in ~/.xinit.d/99-wm.sh is > not the actual window manager, it invokes the wm, possibly through xinit. > > I wonder, would this also explain why an xterm launched from > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh (with no window manager) does not have the expected ENV?
I wouldn't say "does not have the expected ENV" ... as I would expect it to have an environment that is inherited from xinit... which is (probably) different from the environment inherited from X11.app > The missing ENV in that xterm correlates with the WM issues. When I add > ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, or /etc/launchd.conf, the problem goes away for > whatever I am running in ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh, whether it be that xterm or a > WM. Yes, because on SL, LaunchAgents started inheriting your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist > Is there a good way for me to pass my ENV to whatever is launched by > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh, without passing the ENV to every single launchd > process? Yes. echo ". ~/.profile" > ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh echo "cd $HOME" >> ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/00-env.sh _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
