[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#672793: Bug#672793: lightdm does not source ~/.profile

Subject: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#672793: Bug#672793: lightdm does not source ~/.profile
From: post at ralfj.de (Ralf Jung)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:22:24 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 201205141922.24887.post@ralfj.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20120514124016.GA561@corsac.net>
References: <[🔎] 20120513181706.9219.57092.reportbug@r-schlepptop> <[🔎] 201205141344.13575.post@ralfj.de> <[🔎] 20120514124016.GA561@corsac.net>

Hi,

> profile is for login (bourne shell), completely irrelevant to a DM.

> > So reporting a bug against lightdm "does not add ~/bin to the path" would
> > be justified?
> 
> Absolutely not.
I hope you are aware that lightdm is pretty alone with this position? Both kdm 
and gdm source .profile, which makes it the expected behaviour for most users.
But obviously I can't convince you, so I'll see how to deal with that locally.

Kind regards,
Ralf

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