aterm -e screen does not source .bashrc (was: Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution))

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-07-11 09:09, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I have the following in my .xinitrc file:
> 
> aterm -e screen &
> 
> What is happening is that neither /etc/profile nor ~/.profile are
> being read.  How can I get either of them to be sourced?

By default, xterm, rxvt, aterm and various other terminal emulators
start non-login shells.  This means that .profile is not sourced by the
shell spawned by the terminal.  You can enable a `login shell' inside
one of these terminal emulators with the -ls option:

	aterm -ls -e screen &