Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile
[Bcc'd all *dm maintainers and debian-x, in case they want to comment, apologize if you get this multiple times] Dear Debian Developers, Background: most common ways[1] of logging in to a Debian system involve executing or sourcing ~/.profile at some point, but not all of them. [1] tested gdm, slim, console login, from memory I recall kdm and gdm3 doing the same On Lu, 01 aug 11, 10:14:35, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On lun., 2011-08-01 at 11:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I won't comment on your statement that the dm is not the right place, but I strongly believe ~/.profile should be sourced from somewhere by *default*, just as it is done on a console login. It's read by bash (and zsh and few other shells I guess). Do you mind if I move the discussion on -devel? No, go ahead. -- Yves-Alexis IMVHO I think it shouldn't matter how a user logs in, the environment should be as much as possible identical, but I'm not sure this belongs in the *dm. What do you think? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile
On Du, 31 iul 11, 14:40:09, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: tag 636108 wontfix thanks On dim., 2011-07-31 at 12:01 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: lightdm is not sourcing ~/.profile like other dm do (at least gdm2 and slim). # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1)) # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...). I don't think it's really intended to be sourced by a dm. If you still want the behavior, put stuff in .xsessionrc (sourced by scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d). I won't comment on your statement that the dm is not the right place, but I strongly believe ~/.profile should be sourced from somewhere by *default*, just as it is done on a console login. Do you mind if I move the discussion on -devel? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile
On lun., 2011-08-01 at 11:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I won't comment on your statement that the dm is not the right place, but I strongly believe ~/.profile should be sourced from somewhere by *default*, just as it is done on a console login. It's read by bash (and zsh and few other shells I guess). Do you mind if I move the discussion on -devel? No, go ahead. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
