[xmonad] putEnv from Prompt.Input

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Eric Mrak <mail at ericmrak.info> wrote:

> I'm using Prompt.Input (inputPrompt) to query for values such as "VAR=val"
> and passing those along to putEnv. The problem is when I start a new
> terminal using the standard mod+shift+enter the environment does not have
> VAR=val in it.
>

What kind of terminal are you starting? If it's based on a terminal factory
(e.g. urxvtc+urxvtd, or xfce4-terminal, etc.) then it won't get any
environment variables from anything but the invocation that starts the
factory backend.

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