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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:40:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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:  <20060711134022.98529.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060711132336.GB77495@gothmog.pc>

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--- 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?

Peter

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