environment variables not passed on when using dbus

Submitted by chr..@..fe.org

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#11721)

Description

when xfce4-terminal creates its window in an existing terminal process, the environment variables set in the new terminal are the ones set on the first terminal's process, and not inherited from the xfce4-terminal execution that triggered (via dbus) the window creation.

as the optimizations of having just one process are quite transparent to the user, they should not affect the observable behavior. (compare rxvt-unicode: even though client-server terminals are explicit there, the environment variables are passed on from the urxvtc (client) call to the created window).

this is an issue in combination with all programs that expect environment variables to be passed down to their child process, for example tmux (where it got me) or virtualenv.

obseved with xfce-terminal 0.6.3 as packaged for debian as 0.6.3-1+b1.