On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Larry Gensch wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:36:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Larry Gensch <gensch_at_zk3.dec.com>
> To: stefano.lacaprara_at_pd.infn.it
> Cc: fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu
> Subject: Re: FVWM: environment problem
>
> On 18 Jun, stefano lacaprara wrote:
>
> > My question is: it is possible to start direcly netscape (or other applications)
> > preserving the settings done in .login and co.?
>
> Yes. In your .xsession file (or whatever file you use to start up
> fvwm2), source the .login file BEFORE calling fvwm2. That way, the
> environment variables are inherited by fvwm2, which will be passed
> along to whatever applications are started by fvwm2.
By the way, last days I tried to figure out what a shell startet
from fvwm would inherit. So I defined a Menu entry like this:
+ "show env" Exec typeset
I then get a list of env vars to fvwms standart out. Can I be sure this
is the environment fvwm inherits from xinit ?
Lars
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Received on Wed Jun 18 1997 - 17:10:48 BST