On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:24:47AM +0200, Eckehard Berns wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 09:03:26PM -0300, Henrique Lengler wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 09:22:03PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > > > > > 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)) > > > [...] > > > > 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. > > ksh is a bit special in the part that it won't read any startup > file unless it is started as a login shell or it sees the ENV > environment variable. (ksh has its reasons for this behavior.) > > What I'm doing is a variant of option A above. I use .xinitrc as > my main startup file for X. Since xdm starts .xsession instead I > simply have the line > > exec /bin/ksh -l ~/.xinitrc > > in it. That telles ksh to run .xinitrc as a login shell and thus > sources .profile first. That way ENV is set properly and every > terminal should work as expected. Starting X with startx also is > working properly since it inherits the ENV variable from my console > login.
So it is working now. I don't know what was the problem. It started to work today when I turned on my computer, this is strange. I thought that only pressing Control-D until I logout and then login again would apply and load new settings. Now it is working and I have a normal setup: $ cat .kshrc alias ls='ls -p' alias clr=clear alias p='ps -l' alias df='df -h' $ cat .profile export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" export GOPATH=$HOME/go PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Scripts And looks like there is no need to 'XTerm*loginShell: true' on .Xdefaults. I hope it will stay working. -- Regards Henrique Lengler
