On 2006-07-11 09:40, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2006-07-11 09:09, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
aterm doesn't care about .profile or other files. It starts a shell, based on the $SHELL environment variable and your login shell from `/etc/passwd'. What shell are you using? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
