On 4/10/2015 8:03 PM, Henrique Lengler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 07:51:01PM -0400, dan mclaughlin wrote:
you should see an '-ls' option at the end as above. if not, that is your
problem (it's not invoking a login shell), and this should work:
I know that xterm isn't being started with -ls option and it solve thw
problem.
But this couldn't be normal, is it? Because my intention is not to use
only xterm but also others term. emulators like st, and I would like to have
they working as it does in any other system.
If this is normal, will I need to configure and make sure that every
term. emulator I'm using is loading .profile.
On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 09:22:03PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
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))
also, xterm may be invoked elsewhere like in your ~/.xinitrc, so you would
need to fix it there, but the xrdb option should take care of that.
See the -l option of ksh. Also search for the word login in the ksh man
page. ksh (and most if not all other shells I believe) behave
differently if they think they are a login shell. xterm does not not
automatically tell the shell that is invoked when it starts that the
shell should be a login shell. That is why the -ls xterm option exists.
It can be useful not to tell the shell invoked by xterm that it is a
login shell when you are running something in xterm besides an
interactive command prompt session. See the xterm man page. You can
run things in an xterm besides just a command prompt shell (shell
scripts, other text programs, etc.) in which case you wouldn't want
login shell type things being set up.
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John Merriam
