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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 1995 19:12:24 +0200
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: xview problem (olvwm)
Message-ID:  <199508071712.TAA24195@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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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

C'mon, you can't be serious, setting OPENWINHOME in .cshrc not being
sufficient? The environment is a thing independent from the shell
being used, isn't it? This has always worked before. And I see it working
on another machine here with an old 'props' (1.1.5.1) client. And
I don't have any OPENWINHOME setting elsewhere on that machine 
be it in .xsession or in .profile. I don't have a .profile at all.
(disclaimer: I'm not a csh addict at all, originally I prefer the bourne
shell).
>
>> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>
>
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0:
Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995     kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de:
/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386



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