On 12/13/2012 01:14 PM, Feng Zhou wrote: > However, st doesn't seem to be able to read .profile [...]
Just to be a bit more precise here: It's *not* the terminal emulator that reads '.profile'. The terminal emulator just invokes a shell and the shell parses its configuration files. Regarding '.profile', I'll quote the ksh man page (assuming you are using ksh as your shell): >-l Login shell. If the basename the shell is called with (i.e. > argv[0]) starts with `-' or if this option is used, the shell is > assumed to be a login shell and the shell reads and executes the > contents of /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile if they exist and are > readable. So it all comes down to *how* (i.e. with what options) the shell gets invoked. Don't confuse the terminal emulator with the shell, as these are two distinct things.
