[Xorg] startx failes if no path

[Carl Karsten]

Basically I am trying to run startx without a path and get:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 132: xauth: command not found

$ which xauth
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth

If that is expected, then I'll set a path.  If that is not expected, then I'll
file a bug report.

Details: I am trying to run startx with irexec which gets run from local.start.

/etc/conf.d/local.start:
su - carl -c '/usr/bin/screen -d -m /usr/bin/irexec'

/home/carl/.lircrc:
begin irexec
        begin
                remote = CREATIVE_INFRA_DVD
                button = play
                prog=irexec
                # config=/usr/bin/mplayer dvd://1
                # config=DISPLAY=:0 mplayer /mnt/auto/cdrom/*
                config=/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -e mplayer /mnt/auto/cdrom/*
        end

With some experimenting, I did get it to work:

config=PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/bin startx -e /usr/local/bin/mplayer
/mnt/auto/cdrom/*

If you followed it this far, maybe you can answer a related question:

startx displays it's stuff to the screen session.  mplayer opens 2 X windows: 1
for the movie, one for it's console output.  I would like the console output to
go to the screen session.

I am guessing the 2nd window with mplayer status is taking up a few extra cpu
cycles and Celeron 600 can barely play as it is.

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