🐞 Pass LaunchAgents environment variable to shell

[yochem]

Description

I have set an environment variable using LaunchAgent (launchctl setenv XDG_CONFIG_HOME /Users/yochem/Library/Config) on startup.

It sets XDG_CONFIG_HOME to a location so my shell (fish in my case) knows its config location.

When I start iTerm2 or vscode, fish loads its config from the correct location (and XDG_CONFIG_HOME has a value). This is not the case with CodeEdit.

To Reproduce

1. Create the following file:

~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>my.startup</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>sh</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>
    launchctl setenv XDG_CONFIG_HOME /tmp
    </string>

  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

2. $ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.plist
3. Open vscode, its terminal and run $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

should show an empty line

4. Open CodeEdit, its terminal and run $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

should print /tmp

Expected Behavior

I expect that CodeEdit behaves the same as other applications, and is aware of environment variables set via the LaunchAgent. It should pass this environment to the shell.

Version Information

CodeEdit: 0.0.3-alpha.36,5650b45 macOS: 14.0 Xcode: Not installed

Additional Context

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