Re: login script & xterm

[ms419@freezone.co.uk]

On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:46 -0800, ms419@freezone.co.uk
> <ms419@freezone.co.uk> wrote:
> > Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, & when I open
> > an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions?
> >
> > I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is
> > otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc.
> > Unfortunately, they aren't executed when I open an xterm.
> >
> > I hoped there might be a ~/.xtermrc I could put them in, but I haven't
> > found mention of an xterm initialization script anywhere in the
> > documentation.
> >
> > Also, I thought I could configure xterm to start as if with the -ls
> > flag. Anyway, there's probably a reason it doesn't, like a login shell
> > might break some application using xterm?
> >
> > Where should I put them?
>
> Well, ".bash_profile" is executed for login shells and ".bashrc" is
> executed for non-login shells.
>
> If you want to set some environment variables or execute some commands
> only when xterm are launched, you can add a condition in your
> ".bashrc", something like:
>
> case $TERM in
>     xterm*)
>     echo "This is an XTerm"
>         ;;
>     *)
>     echo "This isn't an XTerm"
>         ;;
> esac
>
> Hope this helps.

That's awesome! Thanks! These lines work great, in .bash_profile for 
login shells & .bashrc for xterms:

	if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then
	        if [ -z "$STY" ]; then
	                # An interactive shell without screen.
	                exec screen -xRR
	        else
	                # An interactive shell within screen.
	                alias grep="grep --color"
	                alias ls="ls --color"
	        fi
	fi

Thanks again!

Jack