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timcuth
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Re: Profile in Solaris terminal session

No, that doesn't work, either. I ran some tests and found that .dtprofile is not executed in the situation I am talking about. I did some research and found that it is executed when CDE starts, not when a new window is opened.

To clarify, here is what I am doing. I am right-clicking on the desktop, which brings up a Desktop menu. I slide down to Tools and click, which brings up a sub-menu. Then I click on Terminal, which opens a new window with a command prompt in it. These Terminal windows are where I do 99% of my work. When I open them, neither .dtprofile nor .profile is executed.

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If starting dtterm from the command line, you would use the option "-ls" so that it starts as a login shell. There is probably a line you can put in $HOME/.Xdefaults to force that as a default for dtterm.
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Normally, it executes in any subshell of the session. That said, if you didn't have it in place when you executed your dtlogin, it won't get executed when you spawn a new subshell of that session (i.e., when you open a new window).
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