See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765 for the
full BTS discussion.
martin f krafft wrote:
> On all KDE systems I administer, ~/.bash_profile is never read.
This has gotten a lot of discussion lately on debian-user. Look at
all of the postings about this! And these are not all of them, just
those found after a brief search.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/03/msg00255.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/09/msg02518.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/03/msg17308.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg03884.html - Which
started this bug!
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg01093.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg00669.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg01990.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02270.html
I list those many out just to show that many people are having
problems.
In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg04016.html Mike
Allen suggests:
> Another method that uses the user's default shell is to change:
>
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start
>
> to read:
>
> exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP"
Clever. I like it. But I point out in the next note that 'exec -l'
is a bash'ism and that #!/bin/bash would be needed for Xsession. But
otherwise I can't find anything seriously wrong with this solution.
It nicely solves the problem of specifying the shell by not specifying
the shell. I would normally eschew non-posix shell solutions like
this but can't see a reasonable substitute.
The only downside that I can see is that if someone already has a
~/.xsession with '#!/bin/bash --login;exec x-session-manager' then the
environment scripts are read twice when the user logs in with [gkx]dm.
But that hardly seems like an overwhelming disadvantage.
In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02361.html Mike
further points out that Red Hat uses just that technique. That is,
the technique of doing the following pseudo-code.
#!/bin/bash
exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP"
I think a solution has been found by Red Hat. I think Debian should
implement the same technique. It promotes compatibility between the
distros. It resolves a long running xdm login problem for newbies.
Comments?
Bob
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