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. So the problem is not a config issue on my machine, others are seeing it. This helps me enormously. 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. 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. Dave _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
