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#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:02 AM

i tried to install slackware on a laptop (with xfce-wm) and have a few
questions

i can't type a backslash (on an azerty-keyboard). <Alt Gr>-< , that is. I
can't type a backslash only in X-terminals. When i login through a
text-console, i can type the backslash.
i made a .profile whith 'export PS1="lalala" ', but when i start a terminal
within xfce, it gives me another prompt than i specified. Does anybody know
(or know a resource on internet) where the boot sequence of X and the
environments that it starts, is explained?

tx

#2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 11:02 AM

On 2003-09-04,
slurper <slurper1234@hotmail.com> wrote:

[snip keymap stuff I don't know about]

> i made a .profile whith 'export PS1="lalala" ', but when i start a terminal
> within xfce, it gives me another prompt than i specified.

What's happening here is that when you start a terminal in xfce, that
terminal is not a login shell, so it does not read the contents of
~/.profile. If you want terminals in xcfe to have that PS1 value, you
need to put the value in to ~/.bashrc or invoke the terminal as a login
shell. If the terminal is a xterm or rxvt you can invoke it as a login
shell by typing 'xterm -ls' or 'rxvt -ls' respectively.

For more information on what files are read by login and non-login bash
shells, have a look at the bash man page:

man bash
/^INVOCATION

> Does anybody know (or know a resource on internet) where the boot
> sequence of X and the environments that it starts, is explained?

I think the above decribes what you wanted to know, but you might find
the startx man page useful.

--
Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk>

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