Re: No Terminal Opening
Re: No Terminal Opening
- Subject: Re: No Terminal Opening
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:59:34 -0400
What I want is a *single* login shell, from which all subsequent
xterms/shells inherit their environment. Other *ix's I've used
(solaris, linux various flavors) do that. It is often the case that
the login shell does some very expensive initializations to set up the
environment; subsequent xterms and shells inherit that environment
and avoid the login shell overhead. For example, because of the way
the darwin X11 now manages paths and manpaths via path_helper, a
login shell can be extremely slow in starting up; I wouldn't want
that hit for every shell.
So, how do I only the first shell to be a login shell, and all subsequent
shells and xterms (including those started from the X11-Applications
menu and the command-n shortcut) to start with regular non-login shells
which pick up the login shell environment?
- Terry
> + "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>:
>
> > So, why not just open x11.app and then open an xterm in it? That's
> > what I do every day, no problems. As to the login shell pux
> > "xterm*loginShell: true" in your .Xresources file and, assuming the
> > "xrdb merge" in the xinit files doesn't hang on you indefinitely, you
> > should get a login shell in each of your xterms.
>
> Except possibly for the first one; there is a race condition here,
> which is usually "won" by the first X application, in the sense that
> it will initialize itself before the xinit script has the chance to
> read the .Xresources file. Very annoying, and I am not sure what can
> be done about it.
>
> Another way to get a login shell is to run xterm -ls from Terminal.
>
> - Harald
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