sylpheed strange behaviour

[Mike Mandel]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:39:49 +0100
Auke Kok <sofar at lunar-linux.org> wrote:

> Mike Mandel wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have some problems with sylpheed.
> > 
> > If I add an icon to the panel of XFCE4, and click on it, sylpheed starts and everything
> > works fine.
> > But when i try to start sylpheed via xterm i get this and sylpheed won´t start:
> > 
> 
> if your xterm starts up with a prompt that loks like:
> 
> bash-2.06b$_
> 
> you are running a non-interactive shell. Either you tell your xfce4 to 
> run 'xterm -ls', or add
> 
> XTerm*loginShell: true
> 
> to your .Xdefaults, or make a .bashrc that does something like this:
> 
> if [ -n "$TERM" ] ; then
>    . .bash_profile
> fi
> 
> all 3 solutions will make your plain jane xterm bahave like a login 
> shell. I actually use all of the above, it works wonderfully with 
> konsole that refuses to believe that it should run an interactive shell, 
> as well as gnome-terminal etc.
> 
> once your terminal starts up as an interactive shell, you will get all 
> the needed shell-settings from the profile.c structure that you need.
> 
> [TODO: file to FAQ ?]
> 
> sofar
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Hi!

That was my problem.
My xterm looks now much better :-)
And it works.
I think that more users have problems like this, so it will
be great if you could put this to FAQ.

Thanks a lot!

Mike