Steve Kleene wrote: > I should clarify that I am doing all of this from command lines under a > window manager (fvwm). When I call startx, the first xterm's settings come > from ~/.bash_login. But if I call more xterms from there, any settings in > ~/.bashrc override those. This was easily verified by playing with the login > prompt (PS1).
This is expected due to the fine grained control exposed in bash.
In the bash man page you will find:
~/.bash_profile
The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bashrc
The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
A very typical thing to do in the ~/.bash_profile is to source the
$HOME/.bashrc file with a snippet similar to the following:
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
Or this following in ~/.profile which needs to be shell portable:
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
Bob
P.S. I am also using fvwm, right now in fact.
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