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Subject: bug#18698: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:59:16 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> We install a wrapper script around WindowMaker that prepends
> /gnu/store/XXX-windowmaker-XXX/bin to $PATH.  This setting is propagated
> to all subprocesses in the entire X session, which is suboptimal.  It
> would be nice to find another solution, preferably by using absolute
> pathnames when launching subprocesses run by WindowMaker.

Fixed in be05e64.

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