On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:05:11AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:19, Eric P wrote:
> > Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
> > > On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote:
> > >>Greg Folkert wrote:
> > >>>>2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being
> > >>>>sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck.
>
> On my Debian unstable system running kdm as the login manager, its sourced
> via /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession (at least if you look at the script a number of
> sources are tried in order for the first one the exists
>
> Not sure how gdm does it, but it will probably be something similar.
GDM on sarge is not configured to do so. I patched its /etc/gdm/Xsession
with some code stolen from SuSE gdm Xsession (yes, we also did use this
unspeakable linux distro) the following way:
######## Xsession.patch
--- Xsession.orig 2005-06-15 12:03:32.412090512 +0200
+++ Xsession 2005-06-15 12:04:12.299026776 +0200
@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@
# good for debugging where things went wrong
echo "$0: Beginning session setup..."
+#
+# ptwap setup
+# stolen from SuSE xdm Xsession
+# the users ~/.profile
+#
+test -r ${HOME}/.profile && { . ${HOME}/.profile > /dev/null 2>&1 ; }
+set +u > /dev/null 2>&1
+
# Translation stuff
if [ -x "/usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate" ] ; then
gdmtranslate="/usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate"
######## EOF
I consider this not-sourcing-profile a bug that should be fixed for the
next release ;)
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