Re: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/11/99 11:53:37 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You don't need any of that if you are running bash, and the other > shells probably have equivalent ways of handling it. I simply put all > aliases in my ~/.bashrc file, and they are always read by every >

Re: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Nicholas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > ...and none of these change the handling of aliasses. > > If the aliasses get only read by a login shell (i.e. they are defined in > > .bash_profile) the following Xresource makes every xterm a login shel

Re: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-11 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > ...and none of these change the handling of aliasses. > If the aliasses get only read by a login shell (i.e. they are defined in > .bash_profile) the following Xresource makes every xterm a login shell: > > xterm*loginShell: true > Alternatively, wit

Re: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Steven Baker hat gesagt: // Steven Baker wrote: > The reason _why_ it doesn't read your alias requires a long winding > explanation, so I won't go into detail here... but, the way to fix it, is by > using X resources. > > Edit ~/.Xresources in your favorite text editor. ANd use these resources

Re: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-11 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I tried to start another xterm window from the first one, but for some > reason, it doesn't recognize the aliases the first window does. What gives? > I typed the xterm command line exactly as it came from the Xsession file, and > it didn't help. Isn't the seco

RE: Starting another Xterm in X

1999-01-11 Thread Steven Baker
The reason _why_ it doesn't read your alias requires a long winding explanation, so I won't go into detail here... but, the way to fix it, is by using X resources. Edit ~/.Xresources in your favorite text editor. ANd use these resources xterm*font: xterm*background: xterm*fo