On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Carlo Florendo wrote:
I've got a follow-up question: I run startx and an xterm fires up.
That's no problem. When I invoke another xterm from the xterm that
just started, I now get the proper background and foreground colors but
`ls -l' does not display color coded directory entries anymore on the
newly invoked xterm (It does display the colors from the xterm invoked
by startx, though). Everything would work fine if I invoke `xterm -e
/bin/bash --login -i' since I've aliased ls to `ls --color=auto' in my
bash configuration file. Is there any way to make my xterm understand
`ls --color-auto' without loading the shell configuration files (since
it's from my bash configuration that I set `ls --color-auto')?
No that I know of. But bash knows two kinds of configuration files.
~/.bashrc and ~/.profile (see man bash for details). .profile is read
when invoked with --login otherwise .bashrc. you can put the alias command
to .bashrc and source that from .profile too
==~/.bashrc==
alias ls=ls --color=auto
==~/.profile==
if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi