Re: Selecting things under 'X' using ENV variables

From: Thomas Adam (thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/02/05

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     --- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:

    > Actually, I tried something like that once. In the process I horked
    > some permissions and was sent back to console-mode for nearly a week.

    The other option, is that for whatever terminal emulator you use (xterm,
    rxvt, aterm), you get that to spawn a login shell when it loads. For
    xterm, that's invoked thus:

    xterm -ls

    So that, then, your ~/.bash_profile file is read -- of course, this
    presupposes that in that file, you have told it to source ~/.bashrc -- if
    not, that file will not get read, especially if it contains any shell
    aliases you might then want to use, etc. If you look in ~/.bash_profile,
    you'll see there's an if..fi block that is usually commented out, which if
    you uncomment it will define this behaviour.
     
    > Do I dare say, "but I'm using GDM" ? I get the idea. I'll google about
    > in the archive as well.

    Last I checked, GDM honours the use of ~/.xsession -- but you will have to
    check. XDM and StartX certainly do, so...

    -- Thomas Adam

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