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 <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).
That does not exist on that machine. I'll look into it a bit later,
thanks Greg.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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