On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:31:33PM +0200, Jan Vlach wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
>
Could also just source your profile in your .xsession. That's what I'm in the
habit of doing.
