[xmonad] putEnv from Prompt.Input

[Eric Mrak]

I'm using straight st (when testing this I was using it without tmux or any
other multiplexer). I also tested with xterm and urxvt (no client-daemon)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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