[oclug] Starting an X Windows term

[Joe Burpee]

On 01/08/29 21:52:27, Gilles J. Seguin wrote:
> my fault, sorry, the lines were supposed to be
> ~/.bashrc by default is     source ... interactive, means -norc
> ~/.bashrc            is not source ... login

No problem Gilles.  Reminds me of something else.  It finally came back
to me why I thought $0 was better than $SHLVL:

$ su -
Password: 
# echo $SHLVL $0
1 -bash
# exec bash
# echo $SHLVL $0
1 bash

No surprise.  They're different, but consistent.  I think I would
usually want the test [ "${0##-*}" ] for example, instead of
[ "$SHLVL" -gt 1 ].

I ran into this when trying to fix a problem in the X scripts.  I soon
realized that neither of the tests was very useful in that situation.
And it eventually turned out to be a "interactive" problem, not a
"login" one.  Trying to separate these two factors can cause brain
damage.  ;-)

Joe