Taupter said: > When I log in my system using a console terminal my aliases, locales > sets and variables (stored in /etc/profile) work fine. I start X and > they're still valid till I log out. When I boot my system with runlevel > 2 (starts xdm) and use xdm to log in, these prefferences doesn't work > anymore. How could I log in using xdm and use my /etc/profile > definitions correctly in a clean way?
There are two possibilities for what you mean here, since you didn't specify the context within X where you're having this problem: 1) (Not that likely, but included for completeness) If you're having problems with, say, a menu item or other clickable doodad not knowing your path, there's nothing I can suggest other than adding the full path - these things shouldn't be dependent on the environment anyhow. 2) (What I suspect is the case) If your environment isn't being read by xterms (or Eterms/rxvts/whatever term you prefer), you need to pass the appropriate parameter to the term to tell it to start a "login shell". Then, when the term starts a shell, the shell will behave as if you'd just logged in (my best guess for why it's called a "login shell") and read profiles, etc. Check the manpage to find out what option triggers a login shell. (It's -ls for xterm.)
