Greetings, Kevin Layer! > I know ~/.bashrc hasn't been read because my prompt is not changed and > my aliases are not there.
That's just assumption. Not the first-hand knowledge. It may be true, or not... Best way to know is to place set -x around the start of the file and observe the results. >>> 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. Or simply use PuTTY and PageAnt. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 27.02.2013, <23:35> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
