Re: .bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-20 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:01:13AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:44 -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote: > > is there > > something about the way xdm or KDE starts which keeps it from sourcing a > > .bash_profile file? How can I configure xdm or KDE to read in these files if > >

Re: .bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-19 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:44 -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote: > is there > something about the way xdm or KDE starts which keeps it from sourcing a > .bash_profile file? How can I configure xdm or KDE to read in these files if > they don't? .bash_profile is only sourced for login shells; when you open

.bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-19 Thread Scott Denlinger
I recently made the switch to XOrg from XFree86 when I updated my Debian testing box, and since I prefer to log into a shell then use 'startx' to get into X, I used 'update-rc.d' to get rid of xdm in init.d. Before I did this, though, I noticed some interesting behavior. If I logged into my machine