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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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