On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:52 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:58 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > > >> The trouble is I do not know what the login sequence is when logging > >> into an X window system. As such, I cannot say what is being run between > >> the first run of /etc/profile and the second. > > > > It's not only X itself, it's the whole desktop environment. In principle > > you can follow the breadcrumbs via the man pages, but this line > > (in /etc/profile etc.) will add more info to your debug comments and > > might be useful: > > > > echo This shell called from `ps -p $PPID -o comm=`, pid=$PPID >> /tmp/BASH_DEBUG > > > >> At runlevel 5, if I switch to a virtual console and log in, then both > >> variables are set correctly. > >> > >> Since I'm a bit stumped as to where to go from here, but it definitely > >> seems that something 'odd' is going on, I think perhaps this should go > >> up to bugzilla? > > > > Could be. It certainly doesn't seem to be doing what it says on the tin. > > > > poc > > Are you running gnome ? Have you set "Run command as a login shell" in your > profile for gnome-terminal ? > No, I use KDE. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list