[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
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