My .profile is not read?

Hi,

I recently started trying out fluxbox, and while I am generally happy,
something is wonky with how my shell starts up.
I have various env. vars set up in my .profile, and some aliases in my
.bashrc, etc.

Yet, when I spawn a new xterm from within fluxbox, I get a vanilla
instance of bash - it does not read my .profile.

I do not have this issue, for example, when spawning an xterm from inside Xfce.

I'm not sure if it's really fluxbox related or some other X issue, but
any pointers would be appreciated.

Note: I am launching fluxbox from a shell that has everything set up
right (has my custom prompt, etc from .profile), but fluxbox doesn't
seem to want to inherit that stuff.

Thanks
-John

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