On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:24:42PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > "Fredy P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (16/09/2004): > > Package: xfce4-utils > My version is 4.2.2-1
> > Apparently, xfrun4 doesn't know about the values of the environment > > variables. > I seems to be "normal" as environment variables depends on a shell > you're running, if I'm right. Since xfrun4 does not depend on such a > shell, it does not have to know about them (launched from alt+f2 > shortcut). > > If I run xmessage $SHELL in xfrun4 I get $SHELL, whereas if I run > > xmessage $SHELL in xterm I get /bin/bash. > Launched from a (xterm|gnome-terminal), it still does not know about > them because it calls the program/binary directly without asking the > shell to interprete the command line (substitution and so on). > > As a result of this problem, a script will fail if it needs to read > > the values of the environment variables. > If you really need environment variables, you may find this trick > interesting; in xfrun4, just type: > bash -c "xmessage $SHELL" Also if you run in a terminal that will spawn a shell which will run your normal shell startup scripts to get the environment. I don't think this is a bug of xfrun4 either. Fredy, are you still unhappy with this? -- ,--huggie-at-earth-dot-li--------stuff-thing-stuff----------DF5CE2B4--. _| "Ah! You'd like freshly *squeezed* orange juice." - Basil "As |_ | against freshly unscrewed orange juice, yes" Fawlty Towers | `- http://www.earth.li/~huggie/ - http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ -'
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