Re: [RP] printing output to terminal?

[Shawn Betts]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

>    Thanks.  See below the continued weirdness.
> 
>    [~]% ratpoison -c "getenv PATH"
>    /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/arided:/usr/X11R6/bin
>    [~]% ratpoison -c "exec echo $PATH"
>    [~]%
> 
> 
> versus,
> 
> [~]% echo $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/arided/bin/:/sw/bin/:/usr/local/bin/:/Users/arided/bin/:/sw/bin/:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/arided:/usr/X11R6/bin

How do you start ratpoison? Are you starting it from the same shell
you echo'd $PATH? Can you run this:

$ DISPLAY=:0 ratpoison &
$ ratpoison -c "genenv PATH"
SOMEPATH
$ ratpoison -c "exec echo $PATH"
SOMEPATH2
$ 

-Shawn