Subject: Re: terminals under X 4.2.0 - problems with variables and setup
To: NetBSD User's Discussion List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/05/2002 18:59:21
> How do you start your xterm processes?
>
> If you start them with '-ls' then they should start the session shell as
> a login shell instead of just as an interactive shell. As a login shell
> your shell will do wathever login startup is appropriate, such as
> sourcing your ~/.profile. See xterm(1):
>
> -ls This option indicates that the shell that is
> started in the xterm window will be a login shell
> (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a
> dash, indicating to the shell that it should read
> the user's .login or .profile).
well i used just simple "xterm" with some size and font modifications. now i
added the -ls switch and it works as it is supposed to do... but in older
version of X the switch wasn't needed and it worked...
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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
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