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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-07-11 09:40, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>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 &
>> 
> 
> I added this option but I still do not get my ~/.profile sourced (no
> aliases).  Going '. ~/.profile' gives me my aliases.  How does aterm
> know what file to look for?

aterm doesn't care about .profile or other files.  It starts a shell,
based on the $SHELL environment variable and your login shell from
`/etc/passwd'.

What shell are you using?