If X is started from the console, it should inherit the shell
environment from the console.  If X is started using xdm (or other
graphiccal login), it does not run from a login shell hence it does not
inherit the environment set by .profile.

For xdm, you need to edit Xsession or one of the other start-up scripts
 to establish the shell environment in X.  Or you can create a
~/.xsession script.

> i'm not sure how it is in ksh, but i know in bash, different files are
read 
> if you are using a login shell or not.  for example ~/.bash_profile is
only 
> read if you are starting a login shell, whereas ~/.bashrc is read if
you are 
> starting a non-login shell. 
> 
> as a solution, i just symlink one to the other.  perhaps something
similiar 
> is happening with you?  X3 could have always started loging shells, X4
does 
> not.  or perhaps some config files changed.  anyway, it may be worth a 
> closer read at ksh manual. 
> 
> hope this helps, 
> 
>  --joe 
> 
> Lubos Vrbka writes: 
> 
> > hi, 
> > 
> > i've experienced following problem: if i start a new xterm its settings 
> > differ from the .profile settings (i use /bin/ksh) - i've got path, ... 
> > set ok, but for example stty settings are different (it seems to me
that 
> > "default"). is i use xterm -ls it's ok. i was trying to set stty in 
> > .xinitrc, but it didn't help. where are the defaults stored so i could 
> > edit and change them? 
> > 
> > i've never had these problems in 3.xx X windows - this is X 4.2.0
related. 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > lubos
> > _@_: 
> > 
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> > -
> > #################################################
> > Lubos Vrbka
> > National Centre for Biomolecular Research
> > Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic 
> > 
> > shnek@chemi.muni.cz
> > http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
> > tel. +420 541 129 508
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> > 
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> > 
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