Re: Environment vanishing (was Re: FVWM: Emacs does not...)

From: Christopher Wolf <cwolf_at_micro.ti.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:49:36 -0500 (CDT)

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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