Re: [exec] command & shell environment

> If I understand well, a shell environment is provided only by login
> or interactive shells. So is there a way to launch fluxbox in the

no, some shells read some files no matter if its a login or an
interactive shell, for bash its /etc/profile and maybe ~/.bash_profile
(but i am not a bash expert).

> context of a login/interactive shell, thus providing standard
> environment variables (like $PATH or $LANG for ex.) to fluxbox (and
> the programs launched by ~/.fluxbox/keys and ~/.fluxbox/menu)?
>
> Like you suggested I could simulate the behavior of such a shell by
> executing .bashrc, .bash_profile, or /etc/profile etc. in
> ~/.fluxbox/startup:

not simulate. you can make .fluxbox/startup a bash script by

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#!/bin/bash

source ~/.bashrc
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
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>   /bin/sh -c "source .bashrc; source .bash_profile"

that wouldnt really work anyway since /bin/sh would open a subshell
and set up the environment in that subshell only .. which is instantly
closed again :)

> or something similar, but that would be very depended of bash (if I
> install an other shell it wont be the same syntax/config files).

true. thats why i only would set  LC_ALL or LANG or EDITOR or XTERM in
my .fluxbox/startup. i mean, you dont need aliases at the time fluxbox
runs. you need them when you are interactive :)

regards,
m
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