role of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ?
role of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ?
- Subject: role of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ?
- From: fred lakin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:01:40 -0700 (PDT)
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 or out of date ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.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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