Hi,

you need:

xterm*loginShell: true

in ~/.xresources and something like xrdb ~/.Xresources in ~/.xsession

JV

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 09:26:19PM +0000, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote:
> I have some custom additions to my $PATH. They're defined in ~/.profile and
> they are correctly loaded when I log in from a text console.
> 
> When I log in to X (cwm) and open a terminal window, $PATH does not contain
> the entries.
> 
> I tried `chmod +x` on my .profile but that didn't help.
> 
> Both the text console and the X terminal window are using ksh.
> 
> When I call `/bin/ksh -l` then the resulting shell contains the correct
> additions to $PATH.
> 
> It looks like the custom $PATH is not being passed from the login shell on
> downwards, since ~/.profile is only read by a login shell.
> 
> ~/.kshrc is (according to ksh(1)) read by every spawning shell, but I don't
> see any documentation or examples on the Internet where someone defined
> their $PATH in ~/.kshrc ...
> 
> What's the correct way to set $PATH and have it stick no matter where and
> when the shell is spawned?
> 

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