Brian Beckage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first 'problem' that I noticed is that when I launch xemacs from > the terminal window, a new xemacs window/buffer does not appear with > the GUI. So I guess that perhaps this is related to using a terminal > window instead of an X11 window and so I try launching xemacs from an > X11 window. xemacs is not found and NONE of the fink installations > are even in the search path: > > echo $PATH from the X11 window gives > > (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin) > > while echo $PATH from the terminal window gives > > (/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin). > > I'm using the bash shell and the .profile file has only the line: > > test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh > > Why do the X11 and terminal windows have different search paths?
Terminal.app starts a login shell while XTerm starts an non login shell. The .profile file is sourced only by login shells, not by non login shells (see bash man page). Try to create a .bashrc file containting the same lines than you .profile shell. Alternatively, you can put everything in your .bashrc and make a .profile file containing only "source ~/.bashrc" Sébastien ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
