The existence of this file has nothing to do with the fact that your
~/.xinitrc is read at X11 startup.
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I tried changing my .xinitrc file to open multiple xterms. This is
where it gets weird. Like you have experienced when launching form the
GUI, it will open two xterms. HOWEVER it will not set my $PATH
Because of a typo, perhaps.
variable. Another thing is, that with OR without the .xinitrc file, if
I launch from terminal, my $PATH is set. I mistakenly assumed the
Terminal.app starts a login shell, naked xterm doesn't.
difference was from the .xinitrc and it may not have been. I am
including my .xinitrc file. Perhaps it is the command I am using to set
the variable (which I found in an example .xinitrc)
It seems that somehow I might get this to work without setting up the
.MacOSX/environment.plist file.
# run profile to set $PATH and other vars correctly
. $HOME/ .bash_profile
Is there really a blank space afte the "/"? This would explain a lot...
# start some nice programs
xterm &
xterm &
Try
xterm -ls &
instead. This starts a login shell and reads your environment that you
are used to from Terminal.app. you may even want to decorate your xterm
a little, like with
But then, why do you want to use xterm when you have Terminal.app?
--
Martin
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