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Hello, I seem to have trouble that my .profile is not read when I log in using slim. I assume this since none of the paths in .profile are exported.
I know that ~/.xinitrc is read according to slim.conf, but that only runs startxfce4 at my computer. Should I add ~/.profile as another command line to be executed at login in slim.conf? Also there are problems with certain of the arrow keys etc in the xterms, e.g I cannot scroll back to previous commands or use the tab for completion. |
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~/.profile is executed when said user has a Bourne shell (sh or bash). I'm not sure if any other shells use it.
See sh(1) for more precise details.
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That is strange since when I click on the terminal I assume that it starts sh since it has the $ prompt and export command works, so it is not csh. But it still does not read in the paths in ~/.profile or ~/.shrc, even when I explicitly run sh.
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Start an xterminal with
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$ xterm -ls & Code:
-ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that it should read the user's .login or .profile).
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Thanks J65nko, that's a long man file but as I skimmed it I saw the backspace/delete problem.
I was also wondering why there were settings of PATH in both .profile and .sh, since I guess that .sh executed for every shell not just login shells? Is there a way to search in the manfiles when you have executed the man command? for me it works to use / to search for plain text but not things like .profile or -ls. To set all the command line options (like color etc) for xterm can there be a .xterm file or do you have to execute a file with the xterm command followed by all the options? Any how now that I checked what the menu actually ran exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator, so it was not xterm after all. so I gues I will change that menu button now. |
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The man page viewer can be customized by setting the PAGER environment variable. I use the less program.
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export PAGER=less Looking for .sh is trickier, because the".' (period) has a special meaning in the regular expression mini-language used for searching. From man re_format: Code:
. Matches any single character that is not a newline (`\n'). Code:
\.sh I am not really a desktop person, and don't have a FBSD desktop available right now, but on my OpenBSD box has the following in the ~/.Xresources file: Code:
j65nko@hercules[~]cat .Xresources XTerm*loginShell: true
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I appreciate it, your replies really set the standard
![]() I hope that these newbie questions do not create too much noise on this forum. Perhaps you could have a own section for these kind of questions, so that people who are "serious" are not annoyed. I guess one could always search more on the web and go through books and man-files. But if the OS per se is not the center of ones universe, it is hard to put that much effort into resolving these problems on your own. Therefore until the data-base of posts on this forum is not so big that you can find most answers by searching the posts here, I hope that this is ok, Of course the person asking questions should not come and expect to get served with answers, but instead be grateful for any help that he/she gets. But that is just my opinion, perhaps the BSD systems is not an alternative for regular lazy windows users. Last edited by kasse; 11th September 2008 at 08:58 AM. |
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