Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-14 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:53:36PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: > My apologies, for not noticing that faq entry. But is > is not a solution in general. > > I had a menu entry for "emacs", The effect I got > was the shell inside emacs didn't have ENV set, > and by that time ksh is not going to look a

Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Fraser
of the problem. Why doesn't Xsession just do a ". ~/.profile" before calling /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Holland Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:33 PM To: misc Subject: Re: ksh and X windows.

Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Fraser wrote: If you install a new 3.9 system, and enable X windows (The only package I installed was emacs) Create a new userid with ksh as its shell and sign on though X. ~/.profile does not get executed Nor does ~/.profile get executed then a new xterm is created using the left click

Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Okan Demirmen
On Sat 2006.05.13 at 13:16 -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: > If you install a new 3.9 system, and enable X windows > (The only package I installed was emacs) > > Create a new userid with ksh as its shell > and sign on though X. > > ~/.profile does not get executed > > Nor does ~/.profile get executed

Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/05/13 13:16, Peter Fraser wrote: > Create a new userid with ksh as its shell > and sign on though X. > > ~/.profile does not get executed > > Nor does ~/.profile get executed then a > new xterm is created using the left click > menu in the background. that's normal; see xterm(1) about -l

ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Fraser
If you install a new 3.9 system, and enable X windows (The only package I installed was emacs) Create a new userid with ksh as its shell and sign on though X. ~/.profile does not get executed Nor does ~/.profile get executed then a new xterm is created using the left click menu in the background