[Tcsh] tcsh xinitrc - issues with environment variables?

[Christos Zoulas]

On Jan 14,  4:20pm, ealvarez at fastmail.com ("Eduardo Alvarez") wrote:
-- Subject: [Tcsh] tcsh xinitrc - issues with environment variables?

| Hello, list,
| 
| I use tcsh as my login shell, and have several environment variables set up that I need for running my system.
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| Reading from the man page, when tcsh is used as a login shell it cannot take any scripts for arguments (so, tcsh -l some_script.tcsh won't work). This poses an issue when using tcsh with the Slim display manager (and I suspect it would be the same with any other display manager). Since I have to feed slim a script so it will run xinitrc, it cannot be set to be a login shell, so it will not parse .login. Fair enough, I figured I'd source .login manually from my xinitrc script -- and was surprised to find that none of the environment variables I use got set up. I tried putting them manually, but that didn't seem to work either.  Needless to say, I'm confused. Has anyone run into a similar problem? Any insight would be appreciated.
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| As an aside, I would also be interested in finding out why we can't use a script with -l.

It is a chosen limitation; I don't understand why setting environment variables
or sourcing your .login does not work, but you should also execute the script
from .login at the end (conditionally if an environment variable is set let's
say).

christos