Alias problem with bash -l (was Re: New X server)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:37:51PM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote:
>Jon TURNEY wrote:
>[...]
>> It sounds like you have somehow lost "-multiwindow" from the command used to
>> start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed mode).
>[...]
>> Run xterm +tb, or add "XTerm*toolBar: false" to ~/.Xdefaults
>
>Awesome! Those were exactly what I was looking for, and I also learned
>a few other things along the way. Thanks so much.
>
>I'm having one other problem now, though, which might be a bug. When
>bash is started with the "-l" (that's an 'L') flag, aliases that I've
>defined in .bashrc don't take effect. My .bash_profile includes a call
>to .bashrc, and I know that .bashrc is being executed because I've put
>an echo at the beginning and end of it, and both messages are printed
>out. Even if I execute .bashrc manually, it will print out the
>messages, but I get no aliases. I can, however, manually enter
>aliases, and they work.

I doubt that the base maintainer would be scanning the cygwin-xfree
mailing list looking for problem reports.

Please use the cygwin list for non-x-related problems.

cgf

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