On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:06:38 -0500, Musee U <[email protected]> wrote: : On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun : <[email protected]>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;
Oh!? Maybe startx does it then? I do run it as "startx awesome"; I did not want to mess with the xinitrx/xsession files before I had tested. -- :-- Hans Georg -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
