Aterm now opens with source /etc/profile

I was in aterm when I did source /etc/profile, but now whenever I open aterm I get the results of source /etc/profile. Xterm doesn't do this, only aterm. Why is it doing this and how can I fix it?

just add "source /etc/profile" (without the quotes) to .bashrc (thats located in ur home directory)

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Last edited by zebulon (2012-12-28 14:57:23)

Hi,
Many thanks for the advice. I was unclear though: I maintain the aacskeys package in AUR, not the lua package. However, the file I am patching in aacskeys is named premake.lua, used for the project file generator premake.sourceforge.net.
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/etc/profile: http://pastebin.com/JLtNCMtn
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Last edited by facucosta (2011-07-27 08:29:50)

There is quite some confusion about the different startup files For real terminal work you can check the bash manual. Graphical login managers however do not always follow these rules even though Slim should read /etc/profile as /etc/slim.conf seems to invoke bash with --login... You could try to put the settings in /etc/environment (see the arch wiki). There might also be a slim specific bug
--edit--
On second look line 35 seems odd in your slim.conf. You could try to change it to:
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Last edited by FarmerF (2011-07-27 11:10:15)

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