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Subject: Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile
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Comments: In-reply-to Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>   message dated "Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:43 +0000."
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:59:33 -0800
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Jon TURNEY wrote:

>> On 27/02/2013 00:08, Kevin Layer wrote:
>> > If I put this into .startxwinrc:
>> > 
>> >   mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe --login -i
>> > 
>> > the resulting shell does not read .bash_profile.  If I put 
>> > 
>> >   mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe -i
>> > 
>> > it doesn't read .bashrc.
>> 
>> I've tried to reproduce this, but it seem to work ok for me.
>> 
>> How can are you checking if ~/.bashrc has been read? Have you tried using bash
>> -v to check what bash is reading?

I know ~/.bashrc hasn't been read because my prompt is not changed and
my aliases are not there.

>> This is also a really odd place to start mintty.  Why start it as a side
>> effect of the unrelated action starting the X server?

This is merely an example, the simplest one to reproduce the failure.
It's not how I want to use startxwin.

>> > My ultimate goal is to use ssh-agent/ssh-add to make life easier, but
>> > it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources
>> > .bashrc).
>> 
>> If you are going to work with both mintty and X clients, which will not
>> naturally have a common parent ssh-agent process to inherit from, you might
>> want to investigate the keychain package.

I'm unfamiliar with that.  Thanks for the pointer.

Kevin

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