On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:22:45AM -0400, dan mclaughlin wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:58:29 -0300 Henrique Lengler <henriquel...@opmbx.org> > wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 09:22:03PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Andrew Fresh <and...@afresh1.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 10:50:47PM -0300, Henrique Lengler wrote: > > > >> And it is called in ~.profile with this: > > > >> . /home/henri/.kshrc > > > >> > > > >> The problem is that these definitions work out of X, in the console, > > > >> logged as the same user (henri) but don't work under X. > > > >> I open a xterm window and and type clr, I receive: > > > >> /bin/ksh: clr: not found > > > >> But out of X it works, can someone help me to make this thing work > > > >> normally? > > > > > > > > > > > > What I have done is set "ENV=$HOME/.kshrc" in .profile, then whenever > > > > you > > > > open a new shell, it will use that file as a shell startup file. > > > > > > That's step one, but whether it's enough depends on how you start X. > > > > > > If you start X from the command line with 'startx' then yes, using > > > export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc in your .profile should be enough, because > > > your X clients will inherit that in the environment from startx. > > > > > > If you start X with xdm, then you need to either > > > A) manually set ENV (or source your entire .profile) from your > > > .xsession that xdm invokes, OR > > > B) tell xterm to start the shell inside it as a login shell, so that > > > *that* will read your .profile. This can be done by either: > > > B1) start xterm with the -ls option, or > > > B2) set "*loginShell: true" in your X resource database (c.f. xrdb(1)) > > > > Still not able to do this. My /home/henri/.profile have this: > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > export ENV="$HOME/.kshrc" > > export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > > export GOPATH=$HOME/go > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Scripts > > > > My .kshrc > > --------- > > export PS1='$PWD $ ' > > alias quit=exit > > alias clr=clear > > alias logout=exit > > alias bye=exit > > alias j=jobs > > > > > > BUT printenv says: > > ------------------ > > /home/henri $ printenv > > _=/usr/bin/printenv > > XAUTHORITY=/home/henri/.Xauthority > > LOGNAME=henri > > WINDOWPATH=5 > > WINDOWID=6291457 > > HOME=/home/henri > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > DISPLAY=:0 > > GOPATH=/home/henri/go > > MAIL=/var/mail/henri > > PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/henri/Scripts > > SHELL=/bin/ksh > > PS1=$PWD $ > > TERM=st-256color > > USER=henri > > > > Looks like it reads the PS1 env but not the rest, or they don't work. > > Also I don't intend to use only xterm, but others term. emulators. > > -- > > Regards > > > > Henrique Lengler > > > > try adding some 'echo' statements in all of your startup scripts. ie > > echo "sourcing .profile" > echo "sourcing .kshrc" > > to see if it is running them. then maybe add 'printenv' and 'alias' to some > to see what they print out during startup eg > > alias clr > alias clr=clear > alias clr > > the first should say 'not found', the one after should print your definition.
It behave like this, when I log into ksh out of X. This aliases are being applied correctly out of X, the problem is inside it. -- Regards Henrique Lengler
