Re: login script & xterm

[ms419]

On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, & when I open
an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions?
I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is
otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc.
Unfortunately, they aren't executed when I open an xterm.
I hoped there might be a ~/.xtermrc I could put them in, but I haven't
found mention of an xterm initialization script anywhere in the
documentation.
Also, I thought I could configure xterm to start as if with the -ls
flag. Anyway, there's probably a reason it doesn't, like a login shell
might break some application using xterm?
Where should I put them?
Well, ".bash_profile" is executed for login shells and ".bashrc" is
executed for non-login shells.
If you want to set some environment variables or execute some commands
only when xterm are launched, you can add a condition in your
".bashrc", something like:
case $TERM in
    xterm*)
    echo "This is an XTerm"
        ;;
    *)
    echo "This isn't an XTerm"
        ;;
esac
Hope this helps.
That's awesome! Thanks! These lines work great, in .bash_profile for 
login shells & .bashrc for xterms:

        if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then
                if [ -z "$STY" ]; then
                        # An interactive shell without screen.
                        exec screen -xRR
                else
                        # An interactive shell within screen.
                        alias grep="grep --color"
                        alias ls="ls --color"
                fi
        fi
Thanks again!
Jack
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