Re: Bash woes
Re: Bash woes
- Subject: Re: Bash woes
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:25:29 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:30:41PM -0400, P T Withington wrote:
:
: Since I did not know about ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, I did the
: following in my .xinitrc to make sure the programs I used were launched
: in a proper environment:
:
: # start some nice programs
: xterm -geometry 80x50+0+0 -name login -e bash -login &
: bash -login -c "exec emacs" &
:
: Providing the -login option to bash ensures it will act as a login
: shell and read the appropriate profile/rc files. It is my experience
: in general that X clients _do_not_ by default launch in a login
: environment.
Your experience matches the documented behavior.
But your xterm invocation is a bit hairy. How about this?
xterm -geometry 80x50+0+0 -title login +ls
--
Eugene Lee
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