Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>]

hi I wrote www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/

one reason I've used xdm for so long is that having my environment in 
xterm was more important to me than how X got started

I think the C-coded display managers out there don't bother with 
/etc/profile or ~/.profile like a login should - but I don't know.

by the way XAUTHORITY may not be an export when you think it is - and 
maybe it shouldn't be (reasons omitted)

you can use xauth it is simple to use

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm]
> >
> > FYI, libxt/1:1.1.0-1 also breaks xterm: XAUTHORITY is removed from the
> > environment, meaning that I can no longer start X applications from
> > xterm when gdm3 is used. As libxt/1:1.1.0-2 fixes the problem (which
> > appeared with the upgrade to libxt/1:1.1.0-1) and other terminals
> > didn't have any problem, I assume this is the same bug.
>
> Actually, not just XAUTHORITY, as $PATH was affected too
> ("xterm -e some_command" started by fvwm output an error
> message saying that some_command couldn't be found), and
> I suspect that the whole environment was removed or something
> similar.