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From: brian@ima.isc.com (Brian Holt Hawthorne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm problem w/.profile&.login
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.133415@ima.isc.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 18:34:15 GMT
References: <127530@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <127530@linus.mitre.org>, dsr@mir.mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
> How can one get xdm to read the appropriate .login or .profile file for a 
> user it is starting up?  Kind of a pain since you really don't want to
> set PATH over and over again in the .cshrc file.

Change your .xsession file to begin with 
#!/bin/csh
and then have the first line be source .login.

My .xsession looks like this (for ksh):

#!/bin/ksh
. $HOME/.kshrc

xset b 100 400 150 m 3 

etc...