Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- Subject: Re: Other window managers and desktop environments
- From: Randy Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:04:55 -0600
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 05:38 AM, lenny bruce wrote:
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 12:46 AM, TR wrote:
On 1/24/03 4:47 AM, "lenny bruce" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 10:32 PM, TR wrote:
I successfully installed Apple's X11.app and XFree86 and all that,
and
have gotten my applications to work fine.
Didja do the mysterious ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist configuration?
No...what is it?
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
Note that the envronment.plist variables do not get propogated to your
shell if you log in remotely, such as via ssh. Since I have to set up
login scripts anyway, I haven't seen much use for environment.plist. I
just source my login script in places like the X11 Application menu.
(Sourceing it in the .xinitrc doesn't do any good for apps launched
from X11.app Application menu.)
From what I've seen, you also have to hard-code everything, so changes
to system config files won't update your environment. I like to have
MANPATH=$MANPATH:~/man or MANPATH=$(manpath):~/man. The system default
MANPATH is set by rules in /etc/manpath.config. If I add software that
has a man directory, I add it to /etc/manpath.config. If each user
manually sets their MANPATH, they will not see the new manpages.
In short, I haven't yet found a reason to use
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Being able to source a script where the
.plist gets loaded would be helpful. Does anybody know a way to do
this?
Thanks,
Randy.
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