* MERIGHI Marcus <mcmer-open...@tor.at> [2012-12-10 12:48:26 +0100]: > f...@zhou.es (Feng Zhou), 2012.12.10 (Mon) 12:02 (CET): > > I was trying out st and urxvt as a replacement for xterm, and it > > turned out that all the settings I put in ~/.profile are not > > recognised when I use either st or urxvt. > > > > Is this a bug or an expected behaviour that I need to do something > > about to use other terminals? The shell was not changed, it was the > > default ksh. At first I thought it was a problem of st, but it > > happened to urxvt too. So I thought it's best to ask here. Any help is > > much appreciated. > > I am guessing here, but from the times I used rxvt there's still: > > Rxvt*loginShell: TRUE > > in my .Xdefaults. > > Bye, Marcus
I use urxvt with cwm. You need to to use the ~/.Xdefaults file as others have suggested: URxvt.loginShell:true ... This will solve your problem. BTW, it's documented on the FAQ I believe. Jamie
