Todd A. Jacobs wrote:I'm running Debian Sarge, with GDM launching X. I've noticed thatchanges to PATH and TZ as set in ~/.bash_profile aren't taking effect under X. They work fine in a normal login on a VT, but not under GDM.Is there something that needs to be changed to have GDM execute theprofile at login? I'm thinking that, for whatever reason, bash is never treated as a login shell under GDM the way it is on my Red Hat boxes.
Include this line: . ~/.bash_profilein your .xsession file, and tell gdm to start a 'default system session'