Re: Feature requests & bugs for X11 for Mac OS X
Re: Feature requests & bugs for X11 for Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Feature requests & bugs for X11 for Mac OS X
- From: lenny bruce <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:20:47 -0800
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Brian T. O'Neill wrote:
Quoting Ken Tabb (email@hidden) from :
* The 'Applications' menu doesn't honour the $PATH env variable, so
for instance I installed gimp using fink, which has put it in
/sw/bin. I then add /sw/bin to my path, and typing "gimp" at the
command line (eg. in an xterm) works fine. In the Applications menu
however, if you add <Name>Gimp <Command>gimp then it doesn't work (it
just does nothing). You have to type <Name>Gimp <Command>/sw/bin/gimp
for it to work.
This is doing what its supposed to be doing. If you run X11.app from
command line it will inherit your $PATH. If you run it from the Dock
or Finder, it inherits the PATH of the Dock/Finder, neither of which
read your login or rc files. You need to edit the
.MacOS/environment.plist file and set your path there. See
http://www.misplaced.net/fom/X11/36.html for more info.
Hold the phone here...
your link says to name the directory ".MacOS"
yesterday Lawrence Paulson (THANKS!) sent us to this link
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
where Apple tells us to name the directory ".MacOSX"
I did it Apple's way and it works now! X11 apps launch correctly!
previously, I tried entering the explicit directory in the X11
Application menu
(like "/sw/bin/gnomecc", for example) but this was a bad kludge even
though it launched the application because apps like GnomeCC failed to
find necessary sub-apps and needed files.
I never actually used the X11 Application Menu to launch anything
serious because I ended up launching apps from XFWM's XFCE taskbar
(it's great).
XFWM is my window manager so its' sub-app XFCE gets the paths from my
xinitrc.
I tested the effectiveness of the ~/MacOSX/environment.plist after a
reboot
by removing the explicit paths from the menu so it would try just the
app name
("gnomecc" instead of "/sw/bin/gnomecc") and it worked perfectly...
cool.
To avoid confusion: XFCE is the official name of the window manager,
yet "xfwm" is the window manager command and "xfce" is the taskbar
command.
XFWM runs XFCE automatically when you choose it as your window manager
but you can run the XFCE taskbar separately if you use some other
manager.
Confusingly, Fink offers the "xfce" package (which is XFWM without XFCE)
and the "xfce-taskbar" package (which includes both XFWM and XFCE).
Everything XFCE-related is explained at http://www.xfce.org/
lenny bruce I am not a comedian,
email@hidden I am Lenny Bruce.
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