On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > 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
Oh, oh, oh‼ I'm hopping excited now, it works it works! :D Thanks guys - the fancy arg dancing allows for me to do some fancy arg dancing :) Best regards, Zen
