On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:25:20PM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> On the flaccid day of Apr 9, James K. Lowden penned:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:54:13 -0400 Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
> > > >Can anyone tell me why my prompt in xterms doesn't reflect the prompt
> > > >in my .profile?  When I log in, I get a prompt like
> > > >"jklowden@home.schemamania.org$", but every xterm starts off with
> > > >"bash-2.04$ " until I issue ". .profile".  
> 
> Are you starting your xterm with "-ls", for (L)ogin (S)hell?

That really ought to be the default for twm...
I have:
"Xterm"         f.exec "exec xterm -ls -sb +sk -sl 1024 -geometry 80x40 &"

	David

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