problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 01:30:52 UTC 2009


Hi Aaron,

On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> ~/.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.
>

By bash environment if you mean a terminal emulator then that is exactly 
what I meant in my previous post. However if for example you run 
something using a menu or shortcut on your desktop or maybe Alt-F2 then 
~/.bashrc is _not_ sourced, and environment variables defined there 
won't be available to you. If you want something like that, you need to 
define it in your ~/.bash_profile.

Hope this makes my point clearer. :)
-- 
Suvayu

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