Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 27/02/2013 00:08, Kevin Layer wrote: >> > If I put this into .startxwinrc: >> > >> > mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe --login -i >> > >> > the resulting shell does not read .bash_profile. If I put >> > >> > mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe -i >> > >> > it doesn't read .bashrc. >> >> I've tried to reproduce this, but it seem to work ok for me. >> >> How can are you checking if ~/.bashrc has been read? Have you tried using >> bash >> -v to check what bash is reading?
I know ~/.bashrc hasn't been read because my prompt is not changed and my aliases are not there. >> This is also a really odd place to start mintty. Why start it as a side >> effect of the unrelated action starting the X server? This is merely an example, the simplest one to reproduce the failure. It's not how I want to use startxwin. >> > My ultimate goal is to use ssh-agent/ssh-add to make life easier, but >> > it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources >> > .bashrc). >> >> If you are going to work with both mintty and X clients, which will not >> naturally have a common parent ssh-agent process to inherit from, you might >> want to investigate the keychain package. I'm unfamiliar with that. Thanks for the pointer. Kevin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
