Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 20 aug 19, 10:36:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 02:27:40PM +0000, Vipul wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> From few days, I'm trying find answer of a question "which program does >>> read ~/.profile if I login from graphical user interface (for ex: GNOME)?". >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession >> https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables >> >> These are, of course, incomplete. >> >> The short answer is: if you login through a Display Manager (a graphical >> login program), NOTHING reads ~/.profile. Ever. > > Some (most?) X terminal emulators have the option to start a login > shell, which would read ~/.profile. > Probably, gnome-terminal is not a X terminal emulator but, it does able to recognize variables set in ~/.profile file when login from GNOME interface. Why is so?
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