Re: Bash isn't reading ~/.profile file when login from GNOME
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:01:09AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 20 aug 19, 16:39:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > And now people will think that running login shells in every terminal
> > session is the RIGHT way.
>
> Please do feel free to educate me on when/why it's wrong to run login
> shells instead of a plain interactive shell (or just point me to the
> relevant docs).
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/DotFiles gives some reasons. Of course it
was written before systemd, and therefore doesn't cover all of the
recent contortions, revelations, intrigues, scandals and madness. (And
it's a wiki, so some parts of the page aren't mine -- draw your own
conclusions about each piece of the content.)
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