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role of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ?

You wrote:
 mz> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:59:02 -0700
 mz> From: Mike Zuhl <email@hidden>
 mz> Subject: Fix for environment woes
 mz> To: email@hidden
 mz> I keep seeing people have problems that can be traced back to missing  
 mz> or out of date ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.  As you may already  
 mz> know, this file specifies the environment variables that processes  
 mz> start with and especially affects the behavior of X11 apps.
 mz> I've attached a perl script that I run every so often that copies the  
 mz> current environment to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.  For instance, if  
 mz> you juggle your $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH around you just run this  
 mz> script and your "Finder launched" apps are up-to-date, too.
 mz> This is not rocket surgery, it's just nice to have.
 mz> 				--Mike Zuhl

Hmmm ... the only file in my  "~/.MacOSX/" dir is environment.plist-dont,
which renaming apparently I did back on 4 Mar 2004 . Still has what I
assume are virgin default values, see below.

So, what problems might I be having? Everything seems to work
fine except that iTunes freezes up X11 from time to time ...

[well, OK, also my back hurts and the roof leaks, but if that's
related, OS X is a lot more formidable than I thought ...]

thanks,
-f

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Libray/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd>"
  <plist version="0.9">
  <dict>
    <key>MrX</key>
    <string>1</string>
    <key>TestEnvironmentVariable</key>
    <string>/My/Value</string>
  </dict>
  </plist>
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