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From: darryl@lemuria.MV.COM (Darryl Wagoner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm, xterm, ksh, and .profile question
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.194737.7840@lemuria.MV.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 90 19:47:37 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.175100.6172@apt.bungi.com>
Reply-To: darryl@lemuria.UUCP (Darryl Wagoner)
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In article <1990Sep18.175100.6172@apt.bungi.com> brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger) writes:

>My ~/.xsession files has lines like the following:
>
>    xterm -fn 9x15 -fg black -bg cyan -g 80x24-0+72 -ms red -cr red &
>
>The problem is that the ksh's that are spawned do not run through
>the ~/.profile file.  I have to do that part manually.

Easy!  Just add -ls to the xterm options.  That will give you a login
shell.


Good luck!

-Darryl


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