On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've setup a certain number of aliases and vars both in /etc/profile and in > .profile and, whenever I login they always get read. > But opening a new terminal window under XFCE does not open a terminal with a > "login" so the two files do not get read. > > By reading ksh(1) man, one discovers that this problem can be easily > circumvented by issuing a "ksh -l" command. > But this is quite annoying to type after every time I open a new terminal > and I still haven't found in XFCE terminal the setting to modify this > behaviour. > Is there some variable to set or am I missing some obvious parameter config?
preferences -> general tab -> launch command as login shell Landry
