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wacked xterm environments
Authored by: huzzam on Aug 27, '03 08:43:44PM

In your xinitrc, try putting the ". /etc/profile" BEFORE "exec quartz-wm &". Since quartz-wm launches all your other x programs (if you start them from the Applications menu), its environment gets passed on to its children, including your extra xterms.



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wacked xterm environments
Authored by: jrvela on Aug 28, '03 07:45:56PM

Actallly that does not work. Because the issue is quartz-wm. It sets teh PATH to its own will. Thus you must call /etc/profile after "quartz-wm &". And you do have to launch it in the background (&) otherwise control will not return to xinitrc for the rest of the commands.



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