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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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