Re: [xmonad] Add 'browser' to XConfig

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:51:31PM +0300, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

* David Roundy [2008-03-31 09:05:33-0700]

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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:21:35PM +0300, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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* David Roundy [2008-03-31 07:58:52-0700]

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If you prefer, we could alternately support XMONAD_BROWSER. Note that putting the browser in the environment would also make it immediately runtime-configurable (well, with a few lines of code in contrib).

How do you see it?

I'm not sure what you're asking. You'd just start a terminal and then run echo $BROWSER to see what the value is.

Sorry, I was in hurry. I mean, how do you see runtime configuration of some environment variable, like BROWSER? If xmonad is up and running, I see no way to change its environment from outside. Even restarting it (mod-q) doesn't seem to allow this.

We'd just define a little prompt module, and then do something like setEnv "BROWSER" "new value" True This would also solve my problem with connecting a new ssh-agent to xmonad (and thus to new terminals started by xmonad). David