Hello gnome-terminal

[egbert]

When I start the following script in a gnome-terminal:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
print "hello gnome-terminal"
print os.environ["PYTHONPATH "]

I see the expected results in the same gnome-terminal window.

However starting this same script via a launcher in a panel,
a new gnome-terminal window is opened for output only,
and PYTHONPATH is an unknown entity.
How can I open a terminal over whose environment and
configuration I have more control ?
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Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991
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[gnukid]

Re: Hello gnome-terminal

Hi

Launcher may spawn a new shell to execute your program. The new shell
wont have your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Cheers,
Noorul

egbert wrote:[color=blue]
> When I start the following script in a gnome-terminal:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import os
> print "hello gnome-terminal"
> print os.environ["PYTHONPATH "]
>
> I see the expected results in the same gnome-terminal window.
>
> However starting this same script via a launcher in a panel,
> a new gnome-terminal window is opened for output only,
> and PYTHONPATH is an unknown entity.
> How can I open a terminal over whose environment and
> configuration I have more control ?
> --
> Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991
> =============== =============== =============== =============== ============[/color]

[Mike Meyer]

Re: Hello gnome-terminal

egbert <egbert.bouwman @hccnet.nl> writes:
[color=blue]
> When I start the following script in a gnome-terminal:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import os
> print "hello gnome-terminal"
> print os.environ["PYTHONPATH "]
>
> I see the expected results in the same gnome-terminal window.
>
> However starting this same script via a launcher in a panel,
> a new gnome-terminal window is opened for output only,
> and PYTHONPATH is an unknown entity.
> How can I open a terminal over whose environment and[/color]

X has been breaking environments this way for decades. You have two
choices:

1) Tell gnome-terminal that it needs to start a login shell, assuming
you can.

2) Move the setting of PYTHONPATH into a different startup file, one
that will be executed by all shells when they start.

Whatever you do, don't ask about .MacOSX/preferences.pli st.

<mike
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Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.