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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:31:42 +0300
From:      d e a t h <charon@hades.hell.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: User profile under X
Message-ID:  <19991014233142.B11053@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3840.939910435@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
References:  <3804CB39.BAE933A1@mem.net> <3840.939910435@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"Curse me if I'm wrong, but don't you want to Slang me?"


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