On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:37:52PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >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.
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