howdy,

i recently installed aterm. my window manager is fluxbox and i use bash. i set up all my preferences for aterm in ~/.Xdefaults

to load these preferences i executed:

to get these settings to load everytime automatically when fluxbox starts i added the following line to ~/.fluxbox/init

however, this did *not* load my saved settings properly.

then i tried by sticking in my ~/.bashrc file. this time when i open aterm for the first time my settings aren't loaded, but if i exit aterm and open it up again then the settings load up correctly!

anyone know why they're not loading up correctly first time when i open aterm?

oh, and i boot up to runlevel5 so X is started by gdm

thanks

I think .Xdefaults is ignored unless you manually start X from a console window

.bash_profile (or .bash_login on an old system) is what's executed at login time. then .bashrc is executed when you subsequently open a shell ... at least that's the way it works on my machine.

thanks for your reply. i included the line
in ~/.bash_profile but it had no effect.

what's the general theory that i should be looking at? should i be getting an X init script to run the above command? or should a fluxbox init script or even a bash init script be running the command?

or am i looking off the path altogether? maybe i should be loading my aterm settings a different way altogether. it's just so strange to me that the settings are *always* loaded the *second* time i open a terminal but never the first.

any further suggestions are great welcomed!

anyone?

I just put my aterm settings in ~/.Xdefaults and don't do a thing else but launch flux. Works great. But I don't use any graphical login stuff. Just 'startx'. Kind of a non-answer there and it might not even work for you, but just saying.

If I remember correctly, stuff in $HOME/.xsession is run as part of a graphical login, so putting it there should mean that it runs.

hey!

thanks for the replies guys. the ~/.xsession idea made no difference, unfortunately. no matter what i seem to try, the terminal settings are always applied the second time i open a terminal but not the first! i know it's got to be something retarded!

Wow,

The subject line for this post was EXACTLY what I put in my search...

I've got the same problem, but I run WindowMaker. I login through gdm, I've got my aterm settings stored in .Xdefaults, and if I run

xrdb .Xdefaults

from a normal terminal my aterm starts up correctly, but no colorized output. So, then I type

source .bashrc

and reopen aterm, now, it's set-up correctly AND I have colorized output.

what do I put in .bashrc (.bash_profile OR SomeOtherFile) so that it runs "xrdb .Xdefaults" and THEN .bashrc ???

Well, I finally figured out how to do it!

FIRST, you must add the following line to /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default:

(put it somewhere before the sessreg command...and put your login name not "<username>")

SECOND, you must edit your .bash_profile so that it sources .bashrc :

That should do it!

(I can't beleive it took me that long to figure out how to do something this simple, but, Oh well...)