Ubuntu
debianutils package

  1. Bug #609146
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 609146

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Georg (georg-lippold) wrote :

So my reasoning would be that an xterm is not a login shell, and therefore .bash_profile is not being executed. My .bash_profile is attached, and I modify the path in there. What I'm wondering is why it worked until a few days/weeks back and suddenly stopped working?

As a workaround, I tried to create a $HOME/.Xdefaults file as described here

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=9282

Basically what I did was creating a $HOME/.Xdefaults with the contents

XTerm*.LoginShell: True

and then added a new startup application (System -> Startup Applications -> New...) containing the line

xrdb -all $HOME/.Xdefaults

because Ubuntu does not honor $HOME/.Xdefaults on startup (i.e. no xrdb is started automatically for that, or at least not for me).

This is a workaround, because now my xterms also source my .bash_profile and everything works.