X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_RX,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Kevin Layer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile In-reply-to: References: <15470.1361923720@relay.known.net> <512D7040.7080905@gmail.com> <26949.1361935259@relay.known.net> <512E2F7D.1030305@cs.umass.edu> <8092.1361982038@relay.known.net> Comments: In-reply-to K Stahl message dated "Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:11:12 -0500." Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:19:31 -0800 Message-ID: <28596.1362003571@relay.known.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com K Stahl wrote: >> I normally start a terminal in my .xinitrc file (Place it in your home >> directory): >> >> Example: >> >> #!/usr/bin/sh >> urxvt -e bash -l & wmpid=$! >> wait ${wmpid} Turns out, I'm mistaken, but I found out something interesting. I had created a .xinitrc with a single "xterm" call in it, but I was still running startxwin.exe instead of xinit.exe, so because I had renamed .startxwinrc to .startxwinrc.disabled, I was running with some default init file for startxwin.exe. The xterm that comes up in this case *does* source my .bashrc. From the man page: startxwin This will start up an XWin server and run the user's .startxwinrc, if it exists, or else start an xterm. So, the question is, why does the xterm that is started in the "or else" behave different than the one started from .startxwinrc? A big mystery to me. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple