Re: Xwin and .bashrc

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

What you describe seems to conform to the bash documentation.
A login shell does not read .bashrc. You would need to
explicitly source it from .bash_profile

Pierre

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When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or  as
a  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first
reads and executes commands 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 behav-
ior.

When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands
from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

When  an  interactive  shell  that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from  ~/.bashrc,
if  that  file exists.  This may be inhibited by using the
--norc option.  The --rcfile file option will  force  bash
to   read  and  execute  commands  from  file  instead  of
~/.bashrc.


Bernard Revet wrote:
> 
> > Dear  Gerrit , Dear Cygwinnies
> 
> I thank you for your message and that pushed me to do some extra assays.
> What is funny in this case is that finally I put all my aliases and exported
> variables in .bash_profile and not in .bashrc as I was trying to do . To my
> surprise everything was taken into account then at startup .
> At least for now this is a solution .
> I am not going to look more deeply why .bashrc is taken into account under your
> configuration and .bash_profile under my configuration. The most important is that
> it works
> 
> Best regards
> Yours
> Bernard
> 
> PS
> Some people mention that they had some problems to have Xwin starting correctly.
> I obseved the following at least under my configuration Gateway crystal scan
> monitor.
> For instance starting windows NT in 8 bits mode 1024x768 pixels , everything is OK
> for Windows NT.
> If I start Xwin 1024x768x8  Sometimes it is OK but it happens that I get only the
> grey screen with the X not moving. Going back to 800X600X8 then the session starts
> correctly. Stopping and starting again with 1024x768x8 then it works fine ????