On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not clear on what you mean when you say the Xserver is not run > through a BASH shell; if you mean that you're logging in via GDM or > another display manager (which is the normal graphical login mechanism > on Fedora), the ~/.bash_profile does get executed as part of session > setup, and that command will take effect on the running X server after > user login. However, if you've changed your son's account to use another > shell (such as tcsh), you can simply place that command in the > corresponding startup script. Wouldn't something like a .xsession file be a better place for something like that? In practice it may not matter much, since they'll probably always start a shell through a running X session.... reid -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
