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: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:14 -0700
On 2010/11/19 15:10, David Borman wrote:
> 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
<head smack> That's just a little too obvious, dontchathink? Been too long
since morning coffee; guess I'm due for a hit.
Cheers,
Mark
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