Thanks to Olivier at xfce I have an answer to my problem.
Here's a brief rehash for those of you that use xfce.
I was unable by any means (tried hundreds) to get a new xterm window
to honor aliases in the /etc/profile, but a manual 'source
/etc/profile' after the window came up worked just fine.
It turns out that the answer is in 'man xterm'. Some of you may be
dumb like me, but I was not aware that xterm is not a part of xfce but
a part of X, and as such it depends on .Xdefaults for its behavior.
In this particular case the required parameter of loginShell must be
set to True.
Here's my .Xdefaults file
!
! This is for XTerm
!
XTerm*background: #ffffffe00
XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*font: 10x20
XTerm*loginShell:True
So now you know.
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area
gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed
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