Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:24:52 +0100 (MET) From: "S. L." To: lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20030314025219 DOT 30478 DOT qmail AT web14208 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Subject: Re: .profile and xterm X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0006551723 AT gmx DOT net X-Authenticated-IP: [194.102.244.61] Message-ID: <14796.1047630292@www44.gmx.net> X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Just starting to play with cygwin. I edited my > .profile to do some nice aliases, setting PATH and > bashprompt... > but I realize that as soon as I start a terminal using > xterm (I am using exceed as my Xserver, but shouldn't > matter) all the alias are gone (such as ls=ls > --color=auto, which is handy...), and I need to > deliberately source .profile again...any fix??? [...] Two. Either use " -ls " option to your xterm, or use " -e bash --login ". SLao -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/