Re: bash profile not sourced under X

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

"Bruno Hertz" <brrhtz@yahoo.de> writes:

> Rich Rudnick <nickrud@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> What can I say, I've been using (what I can now call) 'the .xsession
>> workaround' for most of that time. .gnomerc is just one more 'doh' :)
>
> Me too, actually. For years I've been running Gnome (on RedHat) with a
> xsession/xinitrc setup either, and only on occasion of the recent switch
> to Debian I did investigate this stuff again (and was obliged to 'doh'
> as well, of course :))
>
> My previous dwellings on gnomerc possibly being a Debian customization
> are apparently wrong, btw. I did a web search and found references for other
> platforms too, the earliest dating back to 2001 or so. But then, this is the
> kind of stuff one doesn't check every day I suppose ...

And the sort of stuff the mighty Gnome project doesn't dain to
document.


Nic Ferrier