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. > -- ======================================================================= The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. -- Glaser and Way ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
