From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 15: 2:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8223414A04 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07887; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:54:00 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:54:00 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Synapse Engineering Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User profile under X In-Reply-To: <3804CB39.BAE933A1@mem.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Synapse Engineering wrote: > I am using XFree86 3.3.5 under FreeBSD 3.3 with bash 2.03 and KDE 1.1.1. > > When I start an XTerm session, I have to type source .profile to get my > environment variables set. Can I create a file in my home dir that will > tell X to source my profile when X is started? Either start your xterm as a login shell, ie, xterm -ls. Or have the following resource in ~/.Xdefaults: xterm*loginShell: True ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | When all else fails, RTFM ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message