From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 14:31: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6334D37B777 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from V.Dormeyer@t-online.de) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12NNpS-0001Dc-03; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:30:50 +0100 Received: from lisa.picard.vd (06150189615-0001@[62.156.55.53]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12NNpE-1PvWaWC; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:30:36 +0100 Received: (from volker@localhost) by lisa.picard.vd (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA00649; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:29:28 +0100 From: V.Dormeyer@t-online.de (Volker Dormeyer) Message-ID: <20000222232916.A631@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:29:16 +0100 To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash doesn't recognize .profile when in X References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: ; from David Banning on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:47:19PM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux lisa.picard.vd 2.2.6 X-Sender: 06150189615-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:47:19PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > I have this command in my .profile which allows me to do a "ls -lt" with > just an "l"; > > l() { /bin/ls -lt $*; } # less typing > > that works find when not in X - but when I fire up my window manager > (kde) > it will not recognize the command. > > Any ideas ? Hi, start your kde terminal with the -ls option so it acts a login shell and reads your .profile. -Volker- -- ########################################## Volker Dormeyer # V.Dormeyer@t-online.de ########################################## To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message