Re: $SHELL = /usr/bin/awesome ?

[Musee U]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun
<ge...@schaathun.net>wrote:

> Why does awesome set the $SHELL environment to /usr/bin/awesome?
> xterm uses this to tell which shell to run as default command,
> and as long as I remember, it has given the user a straight forward
> way to choose his shell for use with X11.
> With awesome, simply spawning xterm from a menu or key shortcut
> obviously won't work.
>
> I am mainly curious about why.  The obvious solution is to hardcode
> a specific shell in the awesome config.  Annoying coupling, but workable
> :-)
>
>
> --
> :-- Hans Georg
>

Awesome doesn't set $SHELL to /usr/bin/awesome for me.... x.x;