Thomas Adam wrote:
--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:Thank you, Thomas. Especially for your patience with a Linux "newbie." Most of my 30+ years with computers involved things you had to have a new building to contain and half a dozen mean SOB's to operate.This brings up a big question for me.And me. You really should persue the damn archives. This issue has been raised on here to death, hell and back again. I really do not want to see a repeat performance of it.It appears that, when I login via XDM or GDM, the scripts "/etc/profile"and "~/.profile" are NOT run. Are there equivalent scripts for X / Gnome? and if so, what are they?It appears all you need to do is add: [ -f ~/.bash_profile ] && source ~/.bash_profile to ~/.xsession so that it is read when you login via XDM. Of course, the above assumes that ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc in turn. -- Thomas Adam
Actually, I tried something like that once. In the process I horked some permissions and was sent back to console-mode for nearly a week.
Do I dare say, "but I'm using GDM" ? I get the idea. I'll google about in the archive as well.
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