Re: My .profile is not read?
Raphaël Droz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user |
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:56:53PM -0700, John W wrote: > 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. .profile is read by login shell [1] your xterm does not run a *login* shell thus only reads .bashrc. .profile exported values will affect fluxbox and xterm *if* fluxbox itself was launched into a login shell (or if the shell used to run fluxbox from loaded your .profile in some way). Some people often do things like this in .bashrc: [[ -z $PROFILE_LOADED ]] && . .bash_profile # make sure that .bash_profile does not load .bashrc BEFORE setting up $PROFILE_LOADED But you can also configure your login manager (qingy, gdm, ...) to use your .xsession file to run X. For example here is mine: #!/bin/bash # some stuff with variables like MAILDIR, HISTCONTROL + loading common # routines from .bashrc.d/common_profile/*.sh [[ "$ENV_BP" != yes && -r $HOME/.bash_profile ]] && . $HOME/.bash_profile # define the profile to use, eg ENV_PROFILE=desktop or ENV_PROFILE=eeepc, ... [[ "$ENV_BC" != yes && -r $HOME/.bashrc.d/profile ]] && . $HOME/.bashrc.d/profile # my equivalent to .fluxbox/startup file (will also setup $ENV_WM_CONFIG) __env_loader "$HOME/.xinitrc.d/$ENV_PROFILE" # exec fluxbox exec /usr/bin/fluxbox -verbose -log $ENV_SOURCE/.fluxbox/log -rc $ENV_WM_CONFIG regards Raph [1] man bash, chapter "INVOCATION", look for "interactive" mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2