Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Re: .profile not being loaded (ksh) when opening shell in X

Hi David,


On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:09:09AM +0000, David Dahlberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 06:20 +0000, David Dahlberg wrote:
> > I noticed the effect that the OP described ($PWD and $HOME/.profile
> > being ignored) too
>
> After some testing of different WM/DE (Xenodm to FVWM, CWM, Xfce,
> Lumina, Mate) and terminal emulators, I have to conclude, that the
> effect seems to be limited to Mate. Are you using Mate, Jan?

I'm using i3 and xterms started via xenodm. I also used WindowMaker with
plain xterms. I also set fonts and colors via .Xresources, so it works.

AFAIK, mate has it's own terminal emulator in the desktop environment.
No idea if it honors Xresources.

JV

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