Richard, The xterm is launched from a login shell, so even though the xterm itself isn't a login shell, it has inherited from a true login shell. So, you get the same effect if you are using bash as your shell. If you use some other shell as your login, then I'd recommend a minor change to the X11 preferences so that its login shell corresponds to what you are using: defaults write org.x.X11 login_shell /bin/tcsh replacing "/bin/tcsh" with your appropriate shell. You can use defaults read org.x.X11 to check before and after. Merle On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Richard Tobin wrote:

This came up in a Usenet newsgroup. When I start X11, the initial xterm is not a login shell (no -ls argument). Some other people find that theirs is a login shell. Is this something that has changed between versions?

I would have thought it made sense for it to be a login shell, so that you get your expected PATH and so on.

-- Richard

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