On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:48 +1100, Lennon Cook wrote: > what I want is a way to move aliases into the exported environment, > so that X has them when it parses .xinitrc, and so that other > processes run from there have it.
You can't, since aliases are a feature of the shell itself, and only make sense within that shell. They're not part of the OS in the way that environment variables are. You mentioned a mini-shell in ROX earlier - unless that's actually running a copy of bash and not just executing single commands, your bash aliases would be meaningless to it. Regarding .xinitrc, you *could* make them available to that file by sourcing the file that defines the aliases - however, that still applies only to that file, not to any other processes it starts. Simon.
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