Re: A .profile puzzle
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 01:42:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 18 October 2021 01:12:42 Will Mengarini wrote:
>
> > * Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> [21-10/17=Su 12:18 -0400]:
> > > [...] opening a terminal hasn't called
> > > a ". .profile" since about jessie [...]
> >
> > Check whether you *also* have either .bash_profile or
> > .bash_login, because either of those supersedes .profile:
> >
> > ls -lA ~/.bash_{profile,login}
>
> Neither present, just .bashrc, and .bash_logout
That's as expected, then. Your .profile is not being read *now* because
it's not supposed to be, if you use a Display Manager to login.
Your .profile *used* to be read by terminals, because previously, your
terminals had been configured to run login shells. However, I'd bet it
was *not* read by your session, meaning any changes to the environment
would not be seen by graphical applications that you launched directly
from your Desktop or your WM, without going through a terminal.
Assuming you run a Debian X11 Session via a Display Manager, and also
assuming you don't have a .xsession file, you probably want to configure
your environment in ~/.xsessionrc (note the "rc" on the end).
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