On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:57:46PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > Hi, Dear All > > I'm running xdm + fvwm. And my shell is /bin/bash. I find any variable I > set in ~/.bash_profile doesn't take effect after I've login X. If I use > gdm+fvwm, it's OK. So maybe I missed thing related to X? this is my > ~/.xsession: > > #! /bin/sh > > xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap > gnome-terminal & > exec fvwm > #end > > Any idea? Thanks in advance.
The INVOCATION section of the bas man page kinda explains this. It's because ~/.bash_profile is only sourced when bash is invoked as a login shell; this is not the case in an xterm (by default, anyway, you can change it), and ~/.xsession doesn't source it either. You could potentially just source ~/.bash_profile from your ~/.xsession, since this would effect your entire X session. Just make sure that your ~/.bash_profile doesn't run any interactive commands... -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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