Openbox autostart.sh and setting alias on openbox start

Jelloir · 07-03-2011, 03:31 AM

I want run the following command to set an alias to use gvim when running an Openbox session and vim when on the console.

Code:

if which gvim > /dev/null ; then alias vi='gvim' ; else alias vi='vim' ; fi

If I add this to ~/.bashrc its fine but will set gvim as the the default all the time regardless of running X/Openbox, which is no good.

I tried adding it to ~/.xinitrc and ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh but the alias does not get applied. I also tried:

Code:

x-terminal-emulator -e "if which gvim > /dev/null ; then alias vi='gvim' ; else alias vi='vim' ; fi"

Which doesn't work either.

How can I apply this alias when only running and openbox/X session?

Jelloir · 07-03-2011, 03:56 AM

Edit: The below previous post doesn't work OK as my tty was just set to /dev/pts/1..... any suggestions appreciated.

I ended up using the following in ~/.bashrc

Code:

if [[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/pts/0" ]] && [[ $(which gvim) ]] ; then 
    alias vi='gvim'
else
    alias vi='vim'
fi

This seems to be working ok.