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 <ghesk...@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).