Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal & > > Now from those terminals, run: > > echo $MYVAR > > > In xterm, we get the expected output - evidently MYVAR is correctly > "passed through" - this is how env vars should work of course :) > > But sadly :( , as in, very sadly :,( , xfce4-terminal does not > produce the expected output - MYVAR is not “passed through” it seems. > > Does anyone know why, but more importantly, does anyone know how to > overcome this ‘feature’ of xfce4-terminal?
Try this: MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal --disable-server & Reco
