On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:50:23AM +0000, Curt wrote: > What about addressing his primary point rather than what in my > benefit-of-the-doubt humor I construe as a typographical oversight?
I don't remember what the "primary point" was. Was it the same as the Subject: header -- .profile not being read at login? Yeah, we know about that. We've already addressed that. .profile is only read at login time if you login to a shell -- e.g. using ssh or a text console login. (And of course, only if your login shell actually reads .profile. Shells like tcsh which read different files obviously won't read it -- and they wouldn't be able to handle it anyway, because they use different syntax.) It is not read if you login to an X session using a graphical Display Manager. It MAY be read if you login to a Wayland session using a graphical Display Manager. I don't have Wayland stuff installed to test.