Michael Homer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nick Matteo wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: ... >> > Moving everything to /etc/zprofile won't work because the main concern >> > is to make sure it's loaded in all _interactive_ shells. (which >> > zprofile isn't, it's only login shells; zshrc on the other hand is for >> > exactly this.) You could have zshrc source zprofile, or you could >> > just let scripts run in sh (which they pretty much all do) and leave >> > the slim config running sh --login (which it does by default) and >> > everything will be fine. >> >> No, zprofile is loaded for all login shells, and zshrc is loaded for >> interactive shells *additionally*. So I really think that zshrc should >> contain only stuff related to interactive shells, like prompt and >> aliases, etc.. while important setup, variables (like PATH and programs >> Environment files) should be in zprofile. > Neither xterm nor any of its derivatives start login shells by > default, so zprofile would not be loaded in them and mayn't have been > beforehand. See the zsh guide for exactly what gets loaded when: > http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/zshguide02.html#l9
Are you sure? When I start an xterm by simply typing 'xterm' in another xterm, I get one with stuff from my ~/.zprofile loaded. In case it inherits the variables from the parent xterm, then it's no problem because it would do it also from other parent shells (like slims X session). In case of important environment variables, they could even be put in zshenv which are read by all shells, login or not. -- /Jonatan [ http://kymatica.com ] _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
