Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:49:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)) Message-ID: <20060711134909.GB78308@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060711134022.98529.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060711132336.GB77495@gothmog.pc> <20060711134022.98529.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2006-07-11 09:40, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: >--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>On 2006-07-11 09:09, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: >>> I have the following in my .xinitrc file: >>> >>> aterm -e screen & >>> >>> What is happening is that neither /etc/profile nor ~/.profile are >>> being read. How can I get either of them to be sourced? >> >> By default, xterm, rxvt, aterm and various other terminal emulators >> start non-login shells. This means that .profile is not sourced by >> the >> shell spawned by the terminal. You can enable a `login shell' inside >> one of these terminal emulators with the -ls option: >> >> aterm -ls -e screen & >> > > I added this option but I still do not get my ~/.profile sourced (no > aliases). Going '. ~/.profile' gives me my aliases. How does aterm > know what file to look for? aterm doesn't care about .profile or other files. It starts a shell, based on the $SHELL environment variable and your login shell from `/etc/passwd'. What shell are you using?
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