thanks for the tips ken, i am using kde, and after making the changes you suggested things are not yet working... i still have to manually run xrdb ...
note that this happened after a fairly recent upgrade to unstable. thoughts ? dylan On Friday 22 September 2006 12:44, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Friday 22 September 2006 14:56, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > recently noticed that i now have to manually load my .Xresources / > > .Xdefaults everytime i restart X .... > > > > xrdb -load .Xdefaults > > xrdb -load .Xresources > > > > > > i have put these lines int > > o .bashrc and .bash_profile ... but without > > > any effect. any ideas on how to address this ? > > What desktop environment are you using. I've written my own .xsession, > so the secret to loading .bashrc and .bash_profile is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -n 1 .xsession > #!/bin/bash --login > > You should put the xrdb command in .xsession, the PATH modifications > in .bash_profile, and the aliases in .bashrc. > > Oh, and each of my .bashrc and my .bash_profile looks to see if the > other one was called (by checking for an environment variable that the > other sets) and if it wasn't called, it calls it: > > At the beginning of .bashrc: > > export BASHRC_STARTED=true > if [[ x$R == x ]]; then > if [ -f .bash_profile ]; then > source .bash_profile > fi > fi > > at the end of .bash_profile: > > # include .bashrc if it exists > if [[ x$BASHRC_STARTED == x ]]; then > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > source ~/.bashrc > fi > fi > > (And somewhere in .bash_profile, I set the envornment variable $R to > point to the subversion repostiory that contains all of my documents.) > > --Ken -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
