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 <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. > > 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.