On Lu, 09 dec 13, 12:15:53, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my > personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian > view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I > think, but have always hacked things until they seemed to be > working. Now, I want to try to do things in the way the developers had > in mind when they built the install CD images. > > I see the file ~/.profile . It contains code that tests for the > existence of ~/bin/ and adds it to $PATH , if it exists. But it > doesn't 'work'. After I have created my ~/bin/. and filled it with > some scripts, and rebooted, there is still no mention of ~/bin/ in > $PATH . Why? Most display managers don't source ~/.profile (or /etc/profile). I tried to discuss this with developers, but there was hardly any interest so I settled for sourcing them in ~/.xsessionrc instead (which is sourced by the X startup scripts): ,----[ ~/.xsessionrc ] | . /etc/profile | . ~/.profile `---- Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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