I have tried #!/bin/bash --login
and #!/bin/bash -login in .xsession and neither works. I have also tried just "/bin/bash --login" in the saem file to no avail? I don't know why. Tom On 07 11:45 pm, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Denis Kosygin wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +0000, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > > > I tried to put > > > > > > > > > #! /bin/bash --login > > > > > > > > as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. > > > > should=20 this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession > > > > global config? > > > > > > im not sure that trick works in the ~/.xsession, i don't really > > > see why not, but it could. =20 > > > > You need `#! /bin/bash -login' not `#! /bin/bash --login' (see > > the bash documentation). > > i did: > > --login > Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login > shell (see INVOCATION below). > > bash 2 uses --login, bash 1 used -login. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------