On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 05:14:54PM +0100, Frederic Fichter wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently switched one of my machines from Debian to OpenBSD, Still a few things left to fix (otherwise it would be no fun) and it looks promising.
>
> I'm running suckless software, I've installed these packages:
> dwm-6.1p0 dynamic window manager
> st-0.7p1 simple X terminal
>
> My $HOME/.profile has only one line in it:
> export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc
>
> And I set some variables in my $HOME/.kshrc
>
> Now, everything's cool in xterm (i.e. variables are set) - but that's not the case in st, when I launch st from dmenu.
> If I launch st from xterm, variables are set as well.
>
> Where should I look for an explanation?
>
> Thanks much for your help with this.
>
> Best,
>
> Fred
>
Have you restarted X since you set those variables? dmenu inherits dwm's environment which inherits X's environment which inherits the environment
that you logged in with.
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