[X-Unix] path for terminal.app and x11

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May sham khalil assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| i have edited .profile file to include /opt/local/ in the $PATH
| PATH=" /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin"
| 
| but on X11  $PATH doesn't have /opt/local
| PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/shamkhalil:/usr/X11R6/bin"

I believe you mean the path for 'xterm' as opposed to 'terminal.app'. When
X11.app starts an 'xterm' is what is started. This isn't the same as the
terminal.app which is in /Applications/Utilities (by default). For
'terminal.app', I've modified the file ~/.bash_profile to set environment
variables like PATH. For some reason appl chose to make it such that xterm,
or more precisely x11.app, doens't respect such conventions. For a verbose
explination of why this is so check out the following:

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2004-May/021066.html

To make xterm read my .files all I had to do was edit the file
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and look for the line:

xterm & 

and change it to

xterm -ls &

I hope this helps.

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