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: David Borman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:10:03 -0600
Mark,
On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> 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.
Just add:
cd $HOME
to your ~/.xinitrc.d and then the xterms will start up in the right place, as well as twm. :-)
-David Borman
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