Alt-F2 has unique $PATH?

[Derek Broughton]

Jonas Norlander wrote:

> 2008/6/25 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:

>> Yes, the whole concept of non-login shells not needing to source any of
>> those files is that they're supposed to inherit from their parent, so it
>> really seems wrong if Alt-F2 doesn't
> 
> And the parent for a non-login and non-interactive shell (as i would
> guess you get when running a program from ALT-F2) what program is it
> in this case and where do it get there environment variables from?
> 
The parent is the program that starts it - so it's your desktop.  At some
point up the chain it has to be both interactive an login.

-- 
derek