From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 14:30: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C908151A8 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a007.otenet.gr [195.167.115.7]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA27376 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:30:15 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 11159 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Oct 1999 20:31:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:31:42 +0300 From: d e a t h To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User profile under X Message-ID: <19991014233142.B11053@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <3804CB39.BAE933A1@mem.net> <3840.939910435@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <3840.939910435@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:13:55PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:11:05 EST, Synapse Engineering wrote: > > > 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? > > If Jonathan Chen's advice doesn't sort your problem out, then you may be > running some shell like bash, which looks for its own .bashrc instead of > .profile . Yes, depending on the shell used, this may be true. One way to come around this is to change the window manager menus, and make sure that xterm is loaded with the -ls option (login shell). -- Giorgos Keramidas, "Curse me if I'm wrong, but don't you want to Slang me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message