Re: Selecting things under 'X' using ENV variables
--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
> 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.
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