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[Dave Reed]

I think it has to do with what reads .bashrc and what reads .profile. It 
may be that the terminal app reads one and the X11 xterm reads the 
other. I just haven't bothered looking into it. Glad you got it 
working.

On Thursday 09 December 2004 17:14, Benjamin So wrote:
> I did an rm on ~/.xinitrc and copied the contents of .profile (which 
> consisted of "test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh") to  
> .bashrc, and now it works. I'm still not quite sure what's going on, 
> though.
> 
> Ben
> 
> On 9/12/2004, at 20:23, Dave Reed wrote:
> 
> >
> > Actually I didn't read that close enough - it added it to ~/.profile 
> > and
> > I think I put the line in ~/.bashrc. I had been using tcsh on
> > Soloaris/Linux for the last 13 years but decided to give bash a try 
on
> > OS X. I'm not clear on the difference in bash between .profile and
> > .bashrc. I don't have a .xinitrc on my OS X machine. I do on my 
Linux
> > box which I use to start my window manager.
> >
> > Unless you want to run a X11 based window manager on OS X, I don't 
> > think
> > you want a ~/.xinitrc
> >
> > Dave
> 
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