Re: xdm and user's profiles
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 12:01:19AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> if you start a *term from your window-manager's menus they will NOT
> be started with the -ls option, so you either must start one from the
> menu and then use it to start a new one with -ls or you must modify
> all your menus.
it's what ~/.Xresources is for:
XTerm*LoginShell: True
> another potential(*) problem is if you have a X program which uses
> environment variables of some sort, if it is started from the
> window-manager's menus it will not get your profile information since
> that is only inherited from *terms run with -ls and not from the
> window-manger since it is unaware of your environment.
> (*) while I have not yet encountered this, i see it as a possibility.
with the previous line added, all text applications have acces to them.
also /etc/environement is read by Xsession, so X apps can use env. var.
David.
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