Re: [Fluxbox-users] [exec] command & shell environment

[Mathias G. <ak...@fl...>]

> a clean way to pass the user-defined environment variables exported
> by ~/.bashrc to the invoked program (in this case urxvt)? The same

you need to setup your environment before fluxbox starts. when you
launch a xterm and find your shell in good shape environment-wise then
thats because of the xterm launches bash which reads ~/.bashrc (or
whatever shell you prefer) and done. the environment for xterm is
basically empty when you fire it up. fluxbox uses /bin/sh as the
launcher to fire up other apps and even if /bin/sh is linked to
/bin/bash there is no reason for the shell to read in ~/.bashrc since
thats the file read in when bash is a login/interactive shell ...
which is not the case :)

so, the prefered way to do things is to use

    ~/.fluxbox/startup

and launch your fluxbox session with

    startfluxbox

(which then reads and executes ~/.fluxbox/startup)

you can launch other apps from .fluxbox/startup OR set environment
variables which are then available to fluxbox.

if you need for some reason just a couple environment settings for a
special programm then

  ExecCommand FOO=BAR xterm

is ok.

cheers,
m
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