netbsd-help: setting variables from .profile after starting x

Subject: setting variables from .profile after starting x
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/13/2004 22:13:56

Hi,
I would like my .profile file settings to be read after I have started X.
for instance my alias ll=ls-l doesnt work in an xterm. I have to execute my profile file for the variables to be set. does anyone have a workaround to this?
thanks
radhika