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

From: Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens_at_isode.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:52:58 +0100

kvarga01_at_fiu.edu said:
> Besides, you can set environment variables inside a shell script.
> It's not hard to add a line like

> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

> or something like that, but even doing this, it doesn't work...

As others have commented, that's the wrong syntax.

I put the line

FOOBAR=froopy; export FOOBAR

in my .xinitrc, and nowhere else (not in any of my .zshrc or other files, and
it sure seemed to exist in xterms spawned from fvwm2 spawned from the
.xsession/.xinitrc (which are the same file in my setup). I'm using Solaris
2.5.1, fvwm 2.0.45 and xdm.

Can you track down your problem further? Does the same happen with other
window managers? Does your ps(1) have options for looking at the environment
of running processes? ("ps -eww" used to work on BSDish boxes.)


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Received on Thu May 15 1997 - 03:53:49 BST

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