On Monday 27 October 2003 9:35 am, Joe Stone wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2003 17:06, Tom Hosiawa wrote: > ..snip... > > > Try adding this to your file right after this statement , I have it in > > mine: > > [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile > > I don't know if somebody said this already or if the problem lies somewhere > else (tooooo many postings in this list :-), > > but if you get > bash-2.05b$ > in xterm, then xterm did not run the login-stuff. > > if you add in > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm > the line > *VT100*loginShell: true > then xterm logins with environment. > > joe
People following this thread: I was advised on the Gentoo forum to create an .Xdefaults file in /root, and add only this line: XTerm*loginShell: true Does this accomplish the same thing as joe mentions? It did solve one problem I had with getting x to open a prog (perl script) window from a terminal. Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
