[OS X TeX] X11

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.05.2005 um 15:46 schrieb Ettore Aldrovandi:

> The question is, if a user has set  a .xinitrc, then will the global 
> one be
> executed? I haven't checked this.

When the user has an own .xinitrc the 'template' /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 
will *not* be executed. Except it contains a statement like '. 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' ... but that's far away from a good solution. 
'. /etc/profile' might work better,

> Another system-wide kludge is the following.  Force each xterm to
> run a login shell by setting the appropriate resource in
> /etc/X11/app-defaults.
>

Or you rename xterm to xterm.bin and create a shell script xterm that 
invokes xterm.bin with -ls. This brings some inconvenience: 'xterm -e 
<something>' won't work -- it's the same as in Emacs why one can't 
create a login shell to check the environment! (If someone would want 
to launch an xterm to execute some script or such, it would have to be 
then 'xterm.bin -e <the thing>.')

The X resource for xterm to start with a login shell is:

	XTerm*loginShell:	true

But again: the users' .xinitrc files need to load the file with that 
setting! The directory /etc/X11/app-defaults is *not* automatically 
searched for files containing X resources, the environment variable 
XAPPLRESDIR needs to be set to this value before. If the environment 
has the variable XENVIRONMENT set, pointing to a file, this file is 
automatically used to set the X11 run-time environment too. (X11 is an 
almost as old hack as TeX is. Or Emacs.)


The easiest way is to maintain ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, I think. 
The file's manipulation with Perl should be easy, so a little script 
could help us maintain that file ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

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