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

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:04:32AM +0300, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
>>Could also just source your profile in your .xsession. That's what I'm in the
>>habit of doing.
>
>I believe there's no need for neither login-shells nor those X-level
>tricks. To load the interactive environment into xterms or screen, I
>usually to define ENV accordingly in /etc/profile or .profile. Not
>sure it's the right way to also put PATH in (k)shrc, but it would also
>work.
>
>/etc/profile: export ENV=/etc/shrc
>
>or
>
>~/.profile: export ENV=/root/.shrc

That's very interesting. Can someone explain what this does?