environment (/etc/profile) and X

[Jonathan Underwood]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:15 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>We spent a lot of time fixing this several years ago, must have gotten
>>busted somehow.
>>Be sure there's a bugzilla...
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not that sure its busted out-of-the-box ... my delete key works
> just fine in gnome-term and xterm running in a gnome-desktop  started
> from gdm out of runlevel 5 using the prefdm mechanism. INPUTRC is set
> and as far as I can tell reading through the prefdm logic...
> /etc/profile gets called exactly once  inside the /usr/bin/gdm 
> script, assuming the test -f /etc/profile  succeeds.  Sounds to me
> like someone has made a local change to the script logic either in
> prefdm or in /usr/bin/gdm
> 
> 

Nope, I've made no change to either, and see the same issue on two 
different FC3 boxes. To be clear, I'm talking about delete and not 
backspace. INPUTRC is definately not set on either box inside of a 
gnome-session.

J.

> -jef"this explains why /usr/bin/gdm is a script just to setup
> /etc/profile before starting gdm-binary"spaleta
>