problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 28 22:11:27 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sunday 27 December 2009 10:52 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> > Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >>
> >> If the OP is interested, the command line way to do this would be to
> >> have one of your login scripts like ~/.bash_profile say,
> >>
> >> setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> >>
> >> ;)
> > Suvayu:
> >
> > Thanks, this is interesting. So it is in .bash_profile and not .bashrc?
> > Is there a similar way to do in either cshrc or, preferably, tcshrc?
> >
>
> ~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment
> when ever you login. In my experience XFCE and WindowMaker does this. (I
> don't use Gnome/KDE as often, so can't comment on them).
>
> ~/.bashrc gets sourced when ever you open an interactive shell, maybe by
> opening a terminal emulator or login in remotely.
>
> This means whenever you login remotely both ~/.bash_profile & ~/.bashrc
> gets sourced. However if you open a terminal emulator like
> gnome-terminal or xterm only your ~/.bashrc gets sourced.
It is my impression that.bashrc is souurced whenever any program is run
in a bash environment. I am willing to be corrected.
>
> So ideally, (As Tim said in a later post) your environment variables
> should be defined in your ~/.bash_profile where as your aliases and
> functions should be defined in ~/.bashrc.
>
> What I say is true assuming your login shell is bash. Since you asked
> about csh or tcsh, as far as I understood from a quick look at the
> respective manpages (section: startup and shutdown) they behave
> differently. There is no file corresponding to ~/.bash_profile for
> either of them. (maybe this is how C-shells behave?) However ~/.tcshrc
> or ~/.cshrc does get sourced (in that order). So you can define this in
> one of those files and see whether this works.
>
> > Paul
> >
>
> GL
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
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