exceed and cde what happend to aliases

[eric stewart]

I am running exceed that opens the cde
environemnt. I see that users .profile gets
executed. When I open a terminal session thru the personal application popup window and the dtterm window opens I have a session.
1. when I do the alias command, how come the aliases set in the .profile are not there?
They were exported.
2. PS1 was set in the .profile. How come I just get the geneic prompt of $
Thanks in advance
Eric Stewart

[Andy Monks]

you need to set things like that in the .cshrc and similiar

[eric stewart]

I read the .dtprofile where it tells how to uncomment out the line DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
It will then execute your .profile, which it does.
Also the default shell is ksh.
Am I missing something here?
Is ther something that gets executed after the .profile that removes the aliases set in the .profile?

[Bill Hassell]

CDE is not a 'standard' Unix environment so when you start a terminal window with the CDE button, you get an immediate login that bypasses both /etc/profile and also .profile - the reason being that character mode interfaces are not common in a graphical environment.

Look at the comments near the bottom of .dtprofile in your $HOME directory and uncomment the DTSOURCEPROFILE env variable. This file is read by the dtsession manager (parent for dtterm and other icons in the window manager) so you'll have to log completely out and back in again to get the new .dtprofile to source .profile.

Now you could add the necessary customizations to .dtprofile since .profile might have settings or tests that require an interactive shell and these might fail when starting a graphics program. By selecting the ones you need, you can keep your graphical session separate from remote telnet logins.

[Brian M. Fisher · Accepted solution]

As another option, you could set these variables in $HOME/.dtprofile or /etc/profile

Or you can also add the following line to the .dtprofile to force .profile to be read:
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true; export DTSOURCEPROFILE
and create a $HOME/.Xdefaults file and add "*loginShell : True"

Brian
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[curt larson]

I'm using exceed, but I'm using xdm to get the CDE desktop. But I found out that my alias' were only set when i put them into the .kshrc file. Which is what i my ENV shell variable set to. But my PS variable is set in the .profile, so I'm suspecting that your not sourcing your dot files.

When logging in via the gui you need to set DTSOURCEFILE=true as explained in the .dtprofile file.

when just starting a dtterm window, you'll probably need to specify the -ls option to dtterm to have the shell read it's dot file. dtterm's default is not to read them.

You'll probably want to add a few other things such as geometry(window size), scroll bars, etc.

Look at the man page for dtterm for the various options and their syntax.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Hi!

you would have to edit your /usr/dt/config/sys.dtprofile to uncomment the line

# DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

to read

DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

good luck.

[eric stewart]

Here is the .profile:
# @(#) $Revision: 72.2 $
if [ ! "$DT" ]; then
#
# commands and environment variables not appropriate for desktop
#
DISPLAY=mydisplay:0
stty erase "^?" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D" columns 132
stty hupcl ixon ixoff
tabs
fi

# Set up the search paths:
PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH

# Set up the shell environment:
set -u
trap "echo 'logout'" 0

# Set up the shell variables:
EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR

# Set up alias
alias px='ps -aef|grep -v grep | grep '
export px

PS1='${PWD} >'

Here is the display from the CDE terminal window:
$ alias
autoload=typeset -fu
false=let 0
functions=typeset -f
hash=alias -t -
history=fc -l
integer=typeset -i
nohup=nohup
r=fc -e -
stop=kill -STOP
suspend=kill -STOP $$
true=:
type=whence -v
$

Where is the prompt and aliases I expect?

[curt larson]

Have you tried sourcing your .profile from the command line.

I take it that works? This would work for me, alias' included. but like I said
the at login the alias only were set when placed in the ENV file, which
for me is my .kshrc file.

You can also use brian fisher suggestion of using the .Xdefaults file to set up your scrollbars by adding:

Dtterm*saveLines: 8s
Dtterm*scrollBars: true

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

I think you should not export px - rather, you should export PS1 - the PS1 line should read

PS1="`pwd` >"
export PS1