On Mar 23, 2011, at 14:24, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 23.03.2011 um 19:44 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston: > >> 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'm not using bash, I'm true to tcsh. It works as described: What I set in > ~/.login
which is analogous to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile for bash users > appears in the environment of the X clients. (The question stays: Why do I > have to set the environment values twice?) And the answer remains, "you don't" ;> > And X11.app obviously knows the value of $HOME; why doesn't it launch its X > clients in $HOME? Because it doesn't do anything with $HOME. There is no chdir() nor use of $HOME in the server itself. > GNU Emacs, FontForge, xterm – all are in /! X11.app has PWD=/Users/me. Why do > the X clients forget it or set it to /? They have HOME=/Users/me set. I just don't see that behavior at all... _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
