On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 04:54:35PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:26:12 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > It used to work when the desktop file ran a script consisting of > > (xterm -e mc) but stopped working when it ran xterm -e mc. Another > > user suggested exporting EDITOR in ~/.profile, which works. Of course > > EDITOR is now exported in ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. So > > I guess ~/.profile is the place it belongs in this case. > > From man bash: > > When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter‐ > active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com‐ > mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading > that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, > in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that > exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the > shell is started to inhibit this behavior. The key is to realise it inherits the environment from the parent login shell (bash --login). -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
