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Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

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On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals:
> 
>  MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm &
>  MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal &
> 
> Now from those terminals, run:
> 
>  echo $MYVAR
> 
> 
> In xterm, we get the expected output - evidently MYVAR is correctly
> "passed through" - this is how env vars should work of course :)
> 
> But sadly :( , as in, very sadly  :,( , xfce4-terminal does not
> produce the expected output - MYVAR is not “passed through” it seems.

The var isn't being passed through to the shell being run in the term,
you mean.

Perhaps the difference is more in the way the two terms run a shell
(which they do by default when not otherwise told -- at least xterm
does so).

Perhaps xfce4-terminal has an option corresponding to xterm's -e
and you can play with that, to find out who is kidnapping your
vars.

Cheers
- -- t
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xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-02 06:00 +0200
  Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-02 09:00 +0200
  Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-02 09:30 +0200
    SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-02 11:20 +0200
      Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-10-02 12:40 +0200
        Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-02 13:20 +0200
          Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-02 13:40 +0200
            Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-02 14:00 +0200
              Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-02 14:10 +0200
              Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-10-02 14:50 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-02 23:30 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-03 08:40 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-03 14:40 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-03 14:50 +0200
                Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-04 03:00 +0200
                Komejirushi [was xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” ...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-04 08:40 +0200

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