[OS X TeX] $PATH question -- somewhat OT
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Mon Jul 4 18:41:29 CEST 2005
Le 4 juil. 05 à 17:52, Aaron Jackson a écrit :
> On Jul 4, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On Jul 4, 2005, at 13:14, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>
>>> I was checking the PATH variable in connection with another
>>> problem and came across what looks like an anomaly. If I use
>>> Terminal and type 'echo $PATH' I get this:
>>>
>>> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/
>>> powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/bin
>>>
>>> but in xterm I get this:
>>>
>>> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
>>>
>>> Why are these different?
>>
>> Because I have not found a way to patch the X11 path settings for
>> all users. The X11 path is not changed by the i-package setup.
>> Maybe I have received from someone info on how to do this and I
>> have lost it.
>
> However, this should not be a problem as you should never NEED to
> use xterm. Apple's terminal app should do everything you need and
> works better with other aqua apps (as far as copying and pasting...).
There was a thread "[OS X TeX] X11" on similar topics at the end of
May. More or less it seems there's no straightforward solution:
- Creating or patching a ~/.xinitrc for every user of a given Mac.
But it's not system-wide.
- Modifying the system-wide /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. The problem is
that, in case some users have a custom ~/.xinitrc, this system-wide
file isn't read for them.
- By creating or patching, again for every user of a Mac, a file
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. This affects all GUI applications
launched by a given user and may (or rather will) break some. In
particular it has been known to break i-Installer.
Unfortunately, all the FAQs I've browsed through, starting from
Apple's own <http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html>, refer
to the dreaded environment.plist approach.
Other solutions, of course, are:
- Use full paths in xterm.
- Use open-x11 in Terminal.app, as in "open-x11 xdvi" or simply "open-
x11 xterm".
Bruno Voisin
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