-- Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 09 December 2002, 09:25 PM -0800): > Hi. I use the blackbox window manager, but I'm having trouble with my > default environment. > > I was using gdm and all was fine, except that > - My customizations to the login window kept getting bonked. > - If you ctrl-alt-f1 to get a non-X terminal, it keeps coming back > every n seconds without being asked. Especially annoying if your X > configuration is bad... I'm just not a GNOME fan. > > So I switched to xdm > - and my .bash_profile stopped getting processed. So that after > opening an xterm, none of my custom environment variables were > active, just the custom aliases in .bashrc. > - I tried putting 'source ./.bash_profile' at the top of my xsession > file, but no luck. > > Can someone tell me, or point me to the right docs, to get xdm to run > .bash_profile so that all term windows inherit the environment? Just a question... do you really need to use a session manager?
I've been using blackbox for a year now, and I do fine without a session manager (I did fine without one before, too). The 'startx' command gets you into X when you need it (which, granted is most of the time for me), and also means that your environment is preserved when you enter X. Any items I specifically want in all term environments I throw into my .bashrc (aliases, some environmental variables, etc). Any programs I want to run on initialization of X I throw into .xinitrc. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
