On Wed, 14 May 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
>It not that fvwm is not passing the environment variable. What I
>have found is that if the script that launches fvwm is different than
>the shell that you have your environment variables set, then you will
>not get the environment in fvwm that you thought you were. For
>example, for a while a bourne shell was used to execute my .xinitrc
>file while I use zsh for my main shell. In this case, I did not get
>my environment variables set because they are set in my .zshrc file
>and not my .profile file. When I switch my .xinitrc file to run as a
>zsh program, then I got the environment that I expected to get.
>Therefore, if you are using a csh, make sure that the script that
>launches your fvwm session is also a csh script!
So what all this eventually works down to is:
If you don't set your variables, you cannot use them.
-W
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Received on Wed May 14 1997 - 11:50:30 BST