Re: Shouldn't desktop environments use *term -ls? (Re: The best recommendation [...])
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> If the display manager supports PAM, as I think all display managers
> currently in woody do, then pam_env.so will have been run well before
> the terminal emulators are started. Therefore -ls is overkill.
Simple answer: No
Either pam_env.so isn't run or it doesn't work.
>
> Furthermore, I personally am resistant to specifying -ls for all Debian
> window managers because:
>
> * it would be disruptive to the expectations of users who have gotten
> used to it not being set
Not a good reason. Now it's disruptive to the expectations of users who
don't want to get used to buggy behaviour.
> * I'm not sure all x-terminal-emulator packages support "-ls".
It doesn't have to be the -ls switch. I'd be happy with any decent
solution ensuring that terminal emlators invoke shells in a way that
startup files for interactive shells are read, if they are used to run
interactive shells.
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