no shell login initialization when logging in with Gnome? (Gnome 2.2/woody)

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

When I log in using Gnome, login-time shell initialization doesn't seem
to have taken place (as if nothing invoked bash with -login).

More specifically:
- In gdmlogin, I select Gnome Session and log in.
- I start an xterm (either from a window manager menu or from the Gnome
  menu bar at the top) or a Gnome terminal.
- In the bash shell in the terminal window, when I look at my environment 
  variables, settings in /etc/profile and my .bash_profile/.profile 
  have not been applied.

It seems that nothing in the Gnome login process runs a login shell.

Shouldn't something in the Gnome login sequence run a login shell and
start other Gnome processes from that shell, so that shell login-time
setup files get processed?

(This is with the Gnome 2.2 backport to woody.)


Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net