I created the environment.plist and entered the GDFONTPATH and GNUPLOT_DEFAULT_GDFONT string values. This worked also. So, are you saying I shouldn't use .bashrc anymore?
-Mark On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 20:17, mark brethen <[email protected]> wrote: > wxMaxima, the environment variable doesn't get passed along. But gnuplot > reads it's init file when ever a job is submitted to it.. > > No *login* shell is involved anywhere along the way (setting environment > variables in e.g. .bashrc is not an especially good idea, because it's harder > to override them when some other program needs them to be different). Most > Linux desktop environments behave much the same way, and they generally > provide some way to set the environment of the desktop system itself for > cases like this. > > For OS X you want to look at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. There are several > preference pane add-ons for it, or you can edit it directly via the XCode > Property List Editor or as XML text. > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1067/_index.html > > -- > brandon s allbery [email protected] > wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
