~/.bash_profile not loading in X

[eXtremist]

Whenever I run a terminal in X, it doesn't exec my .bash_profile. Does anyone know why? Or how I can set it so that it does?

[bdl]

It has to do with a non-login shell vs a login shell. I'm not a big authority on it, but I believe if you want an xterm to read a config file, you need to put things in ~/.bashrc instead.

[eXtremist]

thx

[Okie]

once my user account got trashed (who knows why) well, anyhow,,, the root account was working fine so a figured that the OS was fine and it was just the normal user account that want bad, so i open /home/user and delete EVERYTHING!!! and logout and log back in and everything was rebuilt with the default values just like the OS was just installed...

i thought that was cool...

this happened with Redhat 7.1 and i cannot guarentee this will fix all distros...

[Okie]

OH YEAH!!!

P.S. if you decide to do this crazy idea, don't forget to save all your personal data like photos, documents, mp3s,etc...etc...

[eXtremist]

You can also

cp -r /etc/skel/* /home/user/

it will achieve the same effect..

::EDIT:: Will this copy the 'dot' (.) files too?

[ 15 January 2002: Message edited by: eXtremist ]

[Hena]

Just to add. If you need to add something in profile files, you can use source command "source ~/.bash_profile" or "source /etc/profile" and it will load the changed version to that terminal. Good for checking if things work as they are supposed to work, without need to do re-login.

[ 15 January 2002: Message edited by: Hena ]

[AdaHacker]

The easy way to use you .bash_profile from an xterm is to just invoke it with
xterm -ls
The ls stands for "login shell," and will execute ~/.bash_profile on startup. The -ls option works with many other terminal emulators as well, including rxvt, aterm, and Eterm. Set your aliases and shortcuts accordingly, and you'll be all set.