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Narann

Member

Registered: 2018-07-27

Posts: 7

xfce4-terminal resets environement variable

Hello everyone !

If I do:

$ export FOO=1
$ xfce4-terminal

Then, in the new terminal window, I do:

$ echo $FOO

$FOO is not set.

But if I do the exact same bunch of code in xterm or gnome-terminal (and apparently others), $FOO is still sets.

I've read here it's a "feature". But it make me impossible to open a xfce4-terminal in a dynamically generated environment.

Any hope to see at least an argument (--keep-env) to not reset the environment ?

Thanks in advance !

Keep the good work !

ToZ

Administrator

From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: xfce4-terminal resets environement variable

Hello and welcome.

Try running xfce4-terminal with the "--disable-server" parameter. As I understand it, this causes it to run as a separate process and not connected to the originating process (via DBUS).

I admit, though, that this is confusing. I would have thought the opposite would be true, The xfce4-terminal developer is pretty active. If you post to the xfce4-dev mailing list of create a bug report, you should get a reply.

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Narann

Member

Registered: 2018-07-27

Posts: 7

Re: xfce4-terminal resets environement variable

Wow ! That seems to work !

Thanks a lot !