[gobolinux-devel] env vars in /etc/zprofile instead of zshrc

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Michael Homer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
>> Nick Matteo wrote:
>>  > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
...
>>  > Moving everything to /etc/zprofile won't work because the main concern
>>  > is to make sure it's loaded in all _interactive_ shells. (which
>>  > zprofile isn't, it's only login shells; zshrc on the other hand is for
>>  > exactly this.)  You could have zshrc source zprofile, or you could
>>  > just let scripts run in sh (which they pretty much all do) and leave
>>  > the slim config running sh --login (which it does by default) and
>>  > everything will be fine.
>>
>>  No, zprofile is loaded for all login shells, and zshrc is loaded for
>>  interactive shells *additionally*. So I really think that zshrc should
>>  contain only stuff related to interactive shells, like prompt and
>>  aliases, etc.. while important setup, variables (like PATH and programs
>>  Environment files) should be in zprofile.
> Neither xterm nor any of its derivatives start login shells by
> default, so zprofile would not be loaded in them and mayn't have been
> beforehand. See the zsh guide for exactly what gets loaded when:
> http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/zshguide02.html#l9

Are you sure? When I start an xterm by simply typing 'xterm' in another
xterm, I get one with stuff from my ~/.zprofile loaded. In case it
inherits the variables from the parent xterm, then it's no problem
because it would do it also from other parent shells (like slims X session).

In case of important environment variables, they could even be put in
zshenv which are read by all shells, login or not.

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/Jonatan         [ http://kymatica.com ]