I wrote: >[...] Ok, I'm stupid. A small amount of thought and smaller amount of testing has shown that: - Ofcourse .xinitrc has a different environment - it's parsed by a child to my shell, not by my shell itself. - aliases aren't available to child processes (as shown by sourcing ~/.profile in an xterm to make the aliases available, and then running another xterm from it - the alises aren't available there).
So, it would seem that a way to 'export' aliases would solve my problem. *Is* there a way to do this? -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
