x11/slim env data gets lost

[David Demelier]

On 26/03/2012 18:24, Steve Frowly wrote:
> Hi
>
> I started using x11/slim a week ago and I must say I love it. One thing I noticed is that some environment variables don't get set which I normally have when I login at the console. To analyze the problem I run:
>
> # logging in via syscons
>
> $ env | sort>  normal-login
>
> # logging in via slim and then invoking an xterm
> $ env | sort>  slim-login
>
> A diff showed the following difference:
>
> -PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/stvy/bin:/home/stvy/bin:/home/stvy/bin
> +PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/stvy/bin
>
> -SHLVL=2
> +SHLVL=1
>
> -XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
> +XTERM_LOCALE=C
>
>
> -FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
>
> Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong? I noticed that FTP_PASSIVE_MODE gets set in /etc/login.conf.
>
> It's as if slim does not load /etc/login.conf
>
> Thanks you for your help.
>
> --
>
> Steve
>
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The login via the tty is done using a full login, the problem with slim 
is that it only calls a shell to run a .xinitrc (or .xsession) located 
in the user home directory thus removing every environment variable.

Because I never found a solution, I removed slim :(

Cheers,

-- 
David Demelier