Mike McCarty wrote: > Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > You might find this bug interesting. > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765 > > Very interesting indeed. So I wonder whether this will show up for > > other desktop environments, too. > > I use Gnome with FC2, and my $HOME/.bash_profile definitely gets read. Red Hat's Xsession script runs the .xsession as a login shell automatically. This will cause the user's .bash_profile or other environment scripts to be run as appropriate for the shell. I think it is the best method and one that Debian should also adopt. And all of this is documented in the quoted bug report. Bob
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