x-11 doesnt use ~/.profile env values

[N_Ox]

Le 1 nov. 07 à 20:01, William Davis a écrit :

> Terminal is using values in ~/.profile but after starting x-11 and  
> going to a xterm window I see from env that /opt/local/bin & sbin  
> are not in my PATH.
>
> However SOFTWARE UPDATE is repeatedly timing-out so I believe Apple  
> may have a major (=big) update up now. hope so :)
>

xterm launched by Apple X11.app is not a login shell by the default.  
So it won't read init file.
Leopard upgrade may have overwritten your xinitrc file which you  
should have modified to get a login shell behaviour:
Change the "xterm" line in /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc by "xterm - 
ls".
You may also want to edit the Applications menu xterm entry.

But I might be totally wrong there, I don't have Leopard yet.

Regards,

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