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Subject: Re: xview problem (olvwm)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
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Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'm running olvwm and some xview clients. Something weird happens
> when I try to run the props binary from under the window manager
> (pop up menu) I get an error (in .xsession-errors) saying that
> /bin/props cannot be found.
> 
> This looks like OPENWINHOME not being defined in the first place
> but it definitely *is* defined (in my .cshrc). I'm running tcsh
> (built under FreeBSD-2.0.5).

> Any clues? 

.xsession is exec'd out of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, so it's 
most likely being run by sh, unless you've got #!/bin/csh at the
top.

In that case, it's not surprising that OPENWINHOME isn't being set.
Either set it in your .profile, or in .xsession

> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de


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