Xorg 7.2 XDM ignores environment settings

[Szalai Andras]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:37:43AM +0200, Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:

> * Szalai Andras <szalai.andras at t-online.hu> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11]:
> 
> > I have encountered a problem when using XDM from Xorg 7.2:
> > 
> > When XDM is about to run /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, it doesn't
> > set environment variables that are present in /etc/login.conf 
> > (e.g. setenv=..., path=...).
> > 
> > I have discovered that XDM included with Xorg 7.2 doesn't contain a 
> > patch (which is present in Xorg 6.9) which fixes the above problem:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/x11/xorg-clients/files/Attic/patch-xdm_session.c?rev=1.2;content-type=text%2Fplain
> 
> Thanks for finding this -- I was just wondering what I possibly screwed up
> when upgrading from XFree86 to X.org 7.2. Could you open a PR -- if you
> have not already done so -- so this issue does not get lost in the noise?

A PR is already opened by Edwin Groothuis.

See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112932 .

bye
andrew