On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Amit Kulkarni <amitkulz@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Then why is it placed there in the FAQ entry? Somebody thought there's a
> relation there.
>
> IMHO, I think ksh should be able to read .profile by default.
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <
> acamari@verlet.org> wrote:
>
>> .Xdefaults has nothing to do with .profile ...
>
>


Have you tried $ ksh -l;

or $ xterm -ls;

?

Just to test if your .profile really works...