On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:43PM -0700, Matt Jibson wrote: > > I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by > > invoking "xterm -ls", the terminal should read .profile, and set the > > prompt. In an xterm, I was able to run "xterm -ls" and have just > > this exact thing happen. Then I installed scrotwm, and went into > > /etc/scrotwm.conf and set the "spawn_term" to "xterm -ls", thinking > > this would do the same, but it does not. What am I doing wrong? I > > am using the default shell. Does scrotwm do something special to > > call "xterm"? > To configure xterm, you need to use the .Xdefaults file, although that > does not look like what you need.
In case an example can help, I have the following in my .Xdefaults to start all xterms as login shells. xterm*loginShell: true Works like a charm. -- Olivier Mehani <sht...@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 3720 A1F7 1367 9FA3 C654 6DFB 6845 4071 E346 2FD1 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
