On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:13:30PM +0200, Jes?s Guerrero wrote:
> As far as I know, all the variables are already inherited from your
> current bash session anyway. If you are in a login session, bashrc is not
> sourced, but bash_profile is. It might make some sense to put them there.

Assuming you haven't sourced ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile, yes -- many do
though.

> And if it is something specific for X or fvwm, then just include them into
> xinitrc. But yes, you are right, depending on the situation it might be
> correct, though in most cases would just be redundant to source that
> file from xinitrc. In my humble opinion.

You're assuming startx(1) is being used to read ~/.xinitrc -- that is by no
means always the case (c.f. that some people link ~/.xsession to ~/.xinitrc,
for instance.)
 
> -- 
> Jes?s Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

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