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: "Brian T. O'Neill" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:57:08 -0600
You are entirly correct, it was typo'd in the FAQ, it is .MacOSX, and
I've updated the FAQ to reflect this. Hopefully thats the last of the
typo's (wishful thinking I know) but the more input the better.
Thanks,
Brian
Quoting lenny bruce (email@hidden) from :
> 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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