Re: Path on x11 startup?
Re: Path on x11 startup?
- Subject: Re: Path on x11 startup?
- From: RCohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:36:15 -0800
Updated info/question on this. Some people suggested that the
method of choice for getting path info right when starting the
window manager is to set the path in .xinitrc. This doesn't work
as far as I can tell. The window manager starts up in an environment
different from whatever .xinitrc specifies.
So that leaves the only option availabe as environment.plist. And
now I've lost the email from Haroon where he indicated the knowledge
base article telling how to do that. Can someone please re-post?
Once upon a time in OS X, /usr/local/bin was in the path, and it
got removed. Where IS the default path set? It would sure be nice
to have it included, even on a system-wide basis (whereas
environment.plist is just for an individual user).
-Ron-
RCohen writes:
> For your info, and others: what you describe here will
> indeed append the path for anything that in fact invokes .cshrc.
> Starting a terminal or xterm, for example. But this does not
> by default happen when starting up X11. My problem was that
> I couldn't start up my window manager of choice when X11 starts
> up, because of path problems. As has been pointed out
> in another email, workarounds are by adding the info to an
> environment.plist file, or appending to the path in
> .xinitrc.
>
> -Ron-
>
> youichi ono writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you want to add "/usr/local/bin" to PATH,
> > it will function by adding PATH to ".cshrc."
> >
> > It functions by describing as follows.
> >
> > set path = ( $path /usr/local/bin )
> >
> >
> > // youichi
> > <email@hidden>
> >
> >
> > on 03.2.13 8:20 AM, RCohen at email@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > What is the path availble when X11 starts up? How can it be
> > > modified?
> > >
> > > I have been trying to get the xfce window manager up. I can
> > > do so if I start x11.app from a terminal session, but not if
> > > I click on the application's icon. I think the distinction is
> > > that when I start from a terminal, /usr/local/bin is already in
> > > my path, due to a setenv PATH in my .cshrc.
> > >
> > > By the way my experience with xfce, and its virtual desktops vis a vis
> > > focus are quite good. I can set xfce for focus follows mouse and switch
> > > xfce desktops and all seems fine. Better behavior than codetek's
> > > virtual desktops; and also more reliable behavior than I was getting with
> > > XDarwin. The only issues: (1) when I bring a window from some Mac
> > > application to the foreground and attempt to switch back to X11,
> > > the X11 windows will be in focus but not come to the front,
> > > untill I switch xfce desktops or hide and then unhide X11; and
> > > (2) Hiding x11 doesn't really work. The windows don't disappear.
> > > They just become inoperable. Clicking on the X11 icon in the
> > > Dock then re-activiates them. Or switching to another xfce
> > > desktop and back will re-activate them.
> > >
> > > -Ron Cohen-
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