Why not using Xdefaults?
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:57:47AM +, Bryan wrote:
Greetings,
In my .profile I have the following:
PS1=\...@\h \w \$
export PS1
On the console, I see:
u...@host pwd $
I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by invoking
xterm -ls,
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:57:47AM +, Bryan wrote:
Greetings,
In my .profile I have the following:
PS1=\...@\h \w \$
export PS1
On the console, I see:
u...@host pwd $
I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by invoking
xterm -ls, the terminal should read
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Darrin Chandler
dwchand...@stilyagin.com wrote:
Making a non-login shell act as a login shell isn't the best way,
whether you're in an xterm or at console. There are nicer ways to do
what you're after. Ksh, for instance, will process a file given in the
ENV
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:36:39AM -0800, Bryan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Darrin Chandler
dwchand...@stilyagin.com wrote:
Making a non-login shell act as a login shell isn't the best way,
whether you're in an xterm or at console. There are nicer ways to do
what you're after.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Darrin Chandler
dwchand...@stilyagin.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:36:39AM -0800, Bryan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Darrin Chandler
dwchand...@stilyagin.com wrote:
Making a non-login shell act as a login shell isn't the best way,
whether
aha I have this for that:
$ alias
reboot='echo are you sure?'
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:27:33PM -0800, Bryan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Darrin Chandler
dwchand...@stilyagin.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:36:39AM -0800, Bryan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Darrin
Greetings,
In my .profile I have the following:
PS1=\...@\h \w \$
export PS1
On the console, I see:
u...@host pwd $
I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by invoking
xterm -ls, the terminal should read .profile, and set the prompt.
In an xterm, I was able to run xterm
scrotwm uses newlines, spaces, tabs, and '=' as conf file delimiters.
It thus does not recognize quoted strings, but breaks at the first
delimiter it finds. To configure xterm, you need to use the .Xdefaults
file, although that does not look like what you need. scrotwm may not
be able to do what
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:43PM -0700, Matt Jibson wrote:
I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by
invoking xterm -ls, the terminal should read .profile, and set the
prompt. In an xterm, I was able to run xterm -ls and have just
this exact thing happen. Then I
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