X and $HOME

Neil Zanella nzanella@cs.mun.ca
Wed May 23 15:11:00 GMT 2001


Hello,

For some reason when I run startx the $HOME environment is not set.
This is used by sh's cd builtin which happens to be invoked by my
window manager's configuration script. But $HOME is set in plain
cygwin without XFree. It seems very odd to me that the value of the
environment variable is lost upon starting X with startxwin.bat.

How can this be fixed?

Thanks,

Neil



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