On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:57:47AM +0000, Bryan wrote: > Greetings, > > In my .profile I have the following: > > PS1="\...@\h \w \$ " > export PS1 > > On the console, I see: > > u...@host "pwd" $ > > I was looking at the man page for xterm(1), and I saw that by invoking > "xterm -ls", the terminal should read .profile, and set the prompt. > In an xterm, I was able to run "xterm -ls" and have just this exact > thing happen. > > Then I installed scrotwm, and went into /etc/scrotwm.conf and set the > "spawn_term" to "xterm -ls", thinking this would do the same, but it > does not. > > What am I doing wrong? I am using the default shell. Does scrotwm do > something special to call "xterm"?
Making a non-login shell act as a login shell isn't the best way, whether you're in an xterm or at console. There are nicer ways to do what you're after. Ksh, for instance, will process a file given in the ENV environment variable for *every* shell: $ grep ENV ~/.profile export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc $ grep PS1 ~/.kshrc export PS1="\...@\h \w \$ " Check the man page for your shell for details about how and when .profile, ENV, et al are processed. It may take you a few goes to get things working how you want, but then everything will work right everywhere without special incantations. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
