s. keeling wrote: > If you do the "#!/bin/bash --login" in .xsession, everything deriving > from that will have your user session stuff. > > Subsequent xterm/rxvt/??? DO need to use the "-ls" switch for them to > become login shells. But they won't need to at that time because they will inherit the environment. > Alternatively, do it in .Xresources > > *VT100*loginShell: true > *Rxvt*loginShell: true I can see that will work for you and for many other people. But it won't work for everything in all cases. In particular in the cases where you need to inherit the environment. That is the use model of programs I run at work. There various applications when launched use both the graphical screen and also open up graphical terminal windows such as xterms. Also some can be shelled out and open terminals. In order to set up the environment to run the tool in the first place I need to source a setting script which sets up the environment with variables to point to work tools off to the right places. In particular PATH for me is set to load programs from the nfs server. So it will be something like: export PATH=$PATH:/net/fileserver/mnt/cadroot/bin If the terminal is told to be a login shell then it resets the environment (as it should) and that piece of functionality breaks. Windows started by shelling out of the application can no longer run those work programs which need environment setup since the environment has been changed out from under it. So setting terminals to be login shells do not work for me in this case. I realize that you are not running in an environment like this. That is why it is working for you. Which is great. As they say there is more than one way of doing it. Just adding this so there can be some appreciation of why it might not work for others. I need PATH to be inherited to subprocesses and sometimes those subprocesses are graphical terminal windows such as xterm. Setting the environment for the underlying window manager seems like the cleanest solution to me. Bob
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