Alexander Hansen wrote:
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> setting it in .bashrc rather than .bash_profile or .profile makes  
> Apple's X11 use the Fink environment on 10.3 (and later), and ensures  
> that things work when one invokes a Fink-installed program from the  
> Applications menu that in turn calls on some other Fink-installed  
> program.  (I've posted to this effect before on these lists). 

On Leopard, this can have the opposite effect, because there X11 starts 
itself inside a bash login shell, and bash invoked as a login shell does 
not read ~/.bashrc (unless you do some cross calling between startup 
scripts).

-- 
Martin






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