Re: An Embarrassing Progblem

From	"S. P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: An Embarrassing Progblem
Date	2017-01-24 13:00 +0100
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On 01/23/2017 04:21 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 24/01/17 09:09, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> There should be a session file somewhere in ~/.config (sorry I have no
>> more details). Perhaps XFCE honors ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsessionrc or some
>> of their siblings.
>
> I use ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc to set environment variables before XFCE 
> starts:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # ...
> # settings needed before xfce start
> export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
> export LC_COLLATE=C
> # ...
> # last line:
> . /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
>
> Stephen, as mentioned earlier, the prompt should be settable in 
> ~/.bashrc *if* it is sourced by ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile so the 
> more likely solution is to check that these files are not damaged.
>
> Also check that the shell really is bash and not something else:
>
> echo $BASH_VERSION
> echo $SHELL
>
> Kind regards,
>
Problem solved.  I finally rooted out the problem.  It was in /bash_profile.

Thanks to all that helped.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.	Life is a fuzzy set
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An Embarrassing Progblem "S. P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-01-23 19:40 +0100
  Re: An Embarrassing Progblem "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2017-01-23 19:50 +0100
    Re: An Embarrassing Progblem "S. P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-01-23 20:50 +0100
      Re: An Embarrassing Progblem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-01-23 21:00 +0100
      Re: An Embarrassing Progblem "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2017-01-23 21:00 +0100
        Re: An Embarrassing Progblem Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-01-23 21:20 +0100
        Re: An Embarrassing Progblem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-23 21:20 +0100
          Re: An Embarrassing Progblem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-01-23 22:30 +0100
            Re: An Embarrassing Progblem "S. P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-01-24 13:00 +0100

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