On Sb, 19 nov 11, 14:46:19, Bob Proulx wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636108 > > Thank you for that bug reference. I have to agree that ~/.profile is > for lowest-common denominator shells (POSIX shells) and not usually > for any other purpose. The problem of having one single location for > setting shell variables has been a problem for a lot of years. ...and there doesn't seem to be any interest to fix it :( > here > is one such bug from 2004. Note that even though it was eventually > closed with an upload that it wasn't actually fixed. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765 Well, having all Display Managers source ~/.profile is a sort of solution, but not all maintainers agree. OTOH, introducing yet another file be sourced would make the solution even more complicated. > Debian's Xsession sourcing $HOME/.xsessionrc seems to be new since the > above bug discussions. I seem to recall it happened during the squeeze release cycle. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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