Re: A .profile puzzle
On Mon 18 Oct 2021 at 09:44:28 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:56:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 18 October 2021 07:17:05 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> > That does not exist on that machine. I'll look into it a bit later,
> > thanks Greg.
>
> Create it. Now it exists. Tada!
You *just* got done saying all this stuff last week^H^H^H^Hyear.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/08/msg00184.html
But thanks for yesterday's summary — I read it /with/ my beer.
Cheers,
David.
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