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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:00:57 +0200
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   xorg-7.3 xdm ignores /etc/login.conf
Message-ID:  <46EA9419.4050402@gmx.de>

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Since the update xdm seems to ignore environment variables set in
/etc/login.conf such as PATH or LANG. I've tried inserting

printenv > ~/.env

into my ~/.xsession and the result looks rather bleak. E.g. PATH looks like this:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin

Which seems to be some kind of xdm default. LANG is not even set.

Executing
su - $USER

leads to the correct PATH and LANG settings:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/kamikaze/bin
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
MM_CHARSET=UTF-8

But of course this will cast away variables like DISPLAY, so putting the line
into my .xsession is not really a satisfying solution.

Does anyone else encounter this problem? Are there any suggestions how to get
behind the reason or even a solution?



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