Terminal emulators can't read .profile

Hi, I was trying out st and urxvt as a replacement for xterm, and it turned out that all the settings I put in ~/.profile are not recognised when I use either st or urxvt. Is this a bug or an expected behaviour that I need to do something about to use other terminals? The shell was not change

Re: Terminal emulators can't read .profile

all for your help. Feng On 13/12/2012, at 8:52 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > * MERIGHI Marcus [2012-12-10 12:48:26 +0100]: > >> f...@zhou.es (Feng Zhou), 2012.12.10 (Mon) 12:02 (CET): >>> I was trying out st and urxvt as a replacement for xterm, and it >>> tu

Re: Terminal emulators can't read .profile

13/12/2012, at 11:59 PM, Dustin Fechner wrote: > On 12/13/2012 01:14 PM, Feng Zhou wrote: >> However, st doesn't seem to be able to read .profile [...] > > Just to be a bit more precise here: > It's *not* the terminal emulator that reads '.profile'. >