[xmonad] putEnv from Prompt.Input

[Brandon Allbery]

Can you provide the actual code you're running?

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Eric Mrak <mail at ericmrak.info> wrote:

> 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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>> brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine
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>>
>
>


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