Re: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-02-01 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thank you all, I missed that tick in the prefs it did the trick :) Sorry for the noise...

Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-01-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, I've setup a certain number of aliases and vars both in /etc/profile and in .profile and, whenever I login they always get read. But opening a new terminal window under XFCE does not open a terminal with a login so the two files do not get read. By reading ksh(1) man, one discovers that

Re: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-01-25 Thread Per Fogelström
And you did not bother to read on after '-l'? If the ENV parameter is set when an interactive shell starts (or, in the case of login shells, after any profiles are processed), its value is subjected to parameter, command, arithmetic, and tilde (`~') substitution and the

Re: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-01-25 Thread Jiri B.
there isn't a click option in Terminal to make it login shell ? :) From: paol...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:19:52 +0100 Subject: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE To: misc@openbsd.org Hi all, I've setup a certain number of aliases and vars both in /etc/profile

Re: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-01-25 Thread Landry Breuil
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've setup a certain number of aliases and vars both in /etc/profile and in .profile and, whenever I login they always get read. But opening a new terminal window under XFCE does not open a terminal with a

Re: Running ksh -l in terminal window under XFCE

2011-01-25 Thread Manuel Giraud
Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com writes: Is there some variable to set or am I missing some obvious parameter config? I had the same problem and starting my .xsession with #!/bin/ksh -l does the trick as any child process (not just shells) will have the correct environment. -- Manuel Giraud