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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [Bug 53345] .bash_profile  script is not sourced]
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-02-29 21:22:29
Message-ID: 40425815.40809 () acm ! org
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Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:01:24PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> Adriaan de Groot wrote:
>> 
>>> Let's (shortly) return to the technical issue at hand; personally, I
>>>  think that Ossi's comments in the bug report are rude and 
>>> unprofessional, but in the face of extreme provocation
>> 
>> There was no extreme provocation.  There was, in fact, no provocation 
>> at all unless this is based on the territorial imperative.
>> 
> 
> the problem is that you simply don't realize that you severely 
> misbehaved. under these circumstances i'm not a bit sorry for calling 
> you names.
> 
I believe that you assumed that I would "misbehave" at some time in the
future.  Specifically, you assumed that I would try to have something
submitted without first submitting it to you or posting it on BugZilla.  I
don't do such things; I don't work that way.  If you wanted to make sure
that I would first get your approval before committing something, you
should have said that, rather than simply calling me names.

>>> On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:41, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Actually, it is the Xsession script that is the issue.  And, I am
>>>> not talking about work arounds for a bunch of stuff.  I am just 
>>>> suggesting the obvious that if the system uses Bash then a Bash 
>>>> Xsession script would be
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, it's not the _system_ that uses shell this or that,
>>> but a particular user.
>> 
>> Actually since this is s system script (actually an X11 script if you
>> want to be picky), it has nothing to do with the shell that the user
>> is using.
>> 
> 
> that's true, and this is what proves that you don't even know what you 
> really want yourself.

It doesn't matter what I want since I am capable of writing the: "Xsession"
script myself.  What I am saying is what Linux newbies need if they don't
know what they are doing.  They need for the: "Xsession" script to be run
by Bash and to, therefore, source: "~/.bash_profile".

> so let me explain it to you.  :-P you want Xsession to pretend to be the
> user's $SHELL, so he doesn't need to set up the session separately.

Not exactly.  I just think that it would be a good idea to use the systems 
default shell (if possible and especially if not using it causes a 
problem).  The biggest issue is that Linux systems use Bash and not using 
Bash causes a problem.  Users of other systems may have other issues, but I 
can't recall anybody posting problems like this to the support lists except 
for Linux users.

--
JRT
 
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