Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- Subject: Re: migrating Tiger -> Snow Leopard -- X11 startup problem
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:09:12 -0800
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:39, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> I should have been clear that in the "free" xterm and any subsequent
> xterms, the shell starts in $HOME, and that the rest of the environment
> looks OK even in those (e.g., $USER is me, $PATH is right, other things I
> set in startup files are OK, ...).
Well xinitrc is launched from your per-user launchd, so it won't have your login shell environment (and subsequently neither will processes launched from it).
The xterms launched from X11.app have your login shell environment as setup by the shell script that launches X11.app.
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