[melman101]

Hey all. I am trying to figure out how to make my Xterm look like my terminal. In the respect that i want the bash shell, and i want xterm to run fortune when it loads up

I have successfully gotten the bash shell working. when i do echo $SHELL i get /bin/bash. But it still won't run fortune, like terminal.app does. I have the code to run fortune in .profile. Also, is there anyway i can make it transparant and change the colors like on terminal. Thanks for your help

Mel

[P]

Stuff in .profile is only run for a login shell (stuff in .bashrc is always run). An xterm that you open is not necessarily a login shell, that depends on the flags set when launching it. In essence, add -ls to make the xterm have a login shell.

You set the color in pretty much the same way. Add "-bg black -fg white" to make the text white and the background black, for instance. you cannot make xterms transparent.

Note: if you add the following to your .profile:

DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY

and start a new standard terminal window, it will work like the one started by X11 and you will be able to launch X11 programs from it, provided X11 is running.

[melman101]

Wow, thank you for those great tips! I will definitely now use terminal as my x11 program launcher. is there anyway i can launch x11 without it appearing in the dock / menu, like as a service.

[wataru]

Originally posted by melman101:
Wow, thank you for those great tips! I will definitely now use terminal as my x11 program launcher. is there anyway i can launch x11 without it appearing in the dock / menu, like as a service.

Yep, you can do just that. Check this out.

[melman101]

Thanks very much. Got it to work! It's awesome. Now I just run X11 programs, as if they were part of the native terminal! Awesome.

Mel