Bug 113819 - xfce4 starts xterm without -ls (no login shell)
Summary: xfce4 starts xterm without -ls (no login shell)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: X11 Applications (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Lukas Tinkl
QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch
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Reported: 2005-08-29 11:54 UTC by Harald Koenig
Modified: 2005-08-30 12:20 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Koenig 2005-08-29 11:54:23 UTC 
using xfce4, xterms don't start as login shell, so /etc/profile doesn't get
read. i'm using the following patch for now:

--- /usr/bin/xfterm4~ 2005-03-22 20:58:02.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/xfterm4  2005-08-28 19:54:35.583438750 +0200
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # more compatible with applications such as gnome-terminal

 if [ "x$TERMCMD" = "x" ]; then
-     TERMCMD=xterm
+     TERMCMD="xterm -ls"
 fi

 if [ "$1" = "-e" ]; then
Comment 1 Thomas Dickey 2005-08-29 20:16:33 UTC 
Most people would consider that change to be a bug.
Comment 2 Lukas Tinkl 2005-08-30 12:20:25 UTC 
I think it shouldn't start a login shell