On 24May2008 21:39, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sieranski, Greg wrote: >> my .bashrc is empty. I have not touched it. > > Well, that's kind of weird. For whatever reason, it sounds like your X > session starts out with a bash login shell that sets up and exports the > environment, and then your terminals run login shells, too. > > What desktop are you using? If you run "ps axf", what processes are the > children of gdm (or whatever dm you use)?
A lot of default desktop environments run login shells in the terminals. It avoids relying on the xsession or ~/.xsession setting things up properly. Most users even think it's how things should be:-( Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. - Peter Blake -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
