> > CVSROOT: /cvs > > Module name: src > > Changes by: dera...@cvs.openbsd.org 2009/04/25 11:36:48 > > > > Modified files: > > etc : Makefile > > Added files: > > etc/root : dot.Xdefaults > > etc/skel : dot.Xdefaults > > > > Log message: > > Provide users by default with XTerm*loginShell:true. This situation just is > > ridiculous; xdm is totally broken since it never starts anything which > > resembles > > a "login shell". As a result, no configuration is brought into a process > > context to give to future xterms or *sh shells and thus cause them to run > > their > > .profile or .kshrc or such a thing, to get futher configuration. Therefore > > people are left with a totally bland unconfigured Unix environment in their > > xterms, and don't know how to change this since .profile is ignored. This > > problem shows hundreds of thousands of google hits. xdm is fundamentally > > broken, but we must solve this also for the startx methods, too, and for > > people > > running csh. It is clear that .xsession is not a solution to this problem > > at > > all (that is, assuming the people who suggest such a thing really mean a > > .xsession file with the execute bit set). This now becomes the recommended > > way for new users to get out of this stupid situation; if someone does not > > like it they can change it or delete it. Few will. Just watch. > > ok kettenis guenther millert > > Wouldn't replacing '#!/bin/sh' with '#!/bin/sh -l' in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc work too?
What would that solve? That isn't the users shell. > I'm using the former, I haven't used startx for years, so the latter I > haven't tried. I don't understand where people like you come from. If you want to spew advice, why don't you TRY IT FIRST YOURSELF? > Wouldn't setting xterm to a login shell only solve one problem, the > other would be the environment for the window manager (and for > ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc), e.g. requiring full paths for binaries > outside of the default (not the user) PATH amongst other things? You didn't even read.
