[2901] in testers
Re: setting X{USER,}FILESEARCHPATH on tty?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Thu Jun 6 13:02:49 1996
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:02:32 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: bert@MIT.EDU, tytso@MIT.EDU, mhbraun@MIT.EDU
Ok, we've moved the setting of X{USER,}FILESEARCHPATH from the global
xsession to the global cshrc.
A summary of the situation to date:
Solaris X binaries don't properly find their resources unless
appropriate environment variables are set.
We originally added the setting of those variables to the global
xsession script. This made things work, except in two cases:
If you have your own .xsession file, that bypasses the
global one, so the variables don't get set, and applications
may break.
If you do a remote login, you also don't get the settings,
so if you try to display on a remote display, applications
may break.
The first problem isn't really a problem, as we don't (and can't)
guarantee custom dotfiles to work. However, the second is. So we moved
the new environment variable settings to the global cshrc.
So now, people whose .xsessions used to be broken are ok again, and
those who updated their .xsession to set up the environment variables
want to remove that code.
Now, the only people who will lose are those who don't source the
global cshrc file. Those people will have to make the proper changes
to their cshrc, but we can't say what those changes are because they
are specific to however the person rewrote their cshrc to begin with.
Craig
