On Mar 21, 2011, at 17:29, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> I think the problem is that you are setting the values in .bashrc. X11
>> inherits your *login* shell environment. This is set by .profile (not
>> .bashrc).
>
> Actually, for bash, the login shell reads .bash_profile (and only that file -
> you need to explicitly load your .bashrc from within that file if you want
> it).
Well it reads .profile if .bash_profile and .bash_login are absent ... unless
in posix mode. For anyone caring, there is a book written on this topic in the
INVOCATION section of bash(1), but here's a snippet:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading
that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that
exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the
shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
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