On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:48 +1100, Lennon Cook wrote:
what I want is a way to move aliases into the exported environment,
so that X has them when it parses .xinitrc, and so that other
processes run from there have it.
You can't, since aliases are a feature of the shell itself, and only
make
I wrote:
[...]
Ok, I'm stupid. A small amount of thought and smaller amount of
testing has shown that:
- Ofcourse .xinitrc has a different environment - it's parsed by a
child to my shell, not by my shell itself.
- aliases aren't available to child processes (as shown by sourcing
~/.profile
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:42:03PM +1100, Lennon Cook wrote:
So, it would seem that a way to 'export' aliases would solve my
problem. *Is* there a way to do this?
Do you need the aliases in anything other than xterm? If not, then
create a ~/.Xdefaults file with this:
*loginShell:
On 12/16/05, Archaic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you need the aliases in anything other than xterm?
Yes. I tend to run commands straight from ROX-Filer's shell minibuffer
occasionally; also, I would like to be able to use an alias as my Rox
download manager (although, it would probably make more
I have noticed recently that .xinitrc seems to run with different
envvars than those I set in /etc/profile and ~/.profile .
I first noticed this when I started using ROX Appdirs in my home dir
for some things - I have the following in my ~/.profile to let me use
these apps from an xterm:
for dir
I wrote:
also set my CHOICESPATH (used by various ROX apps for locating their
config files) in /etc/profile .
Ok, this problem was solved trivially - after some experimenting, I
found that I need to set both XDG_CONFIG_HOME and CHOICESPATH. Which
leaves the first problem, and means that my
