> The user's .profile is to be read by the shell, on interactive shell
> (i.e. terminal) logins ONLY
This is incorrect, .profile is read by the shell also when the shell is
non-interactive. Here is the quote from the bash manual:
> When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
> non
On 06/26/2015 04:22 AM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> ~/.xsessionrc is sourced using /bin/sh.
Actually it's sourced using /bin/bash since a few months.
> A default Ubuntu session does not invoke
> ~/.xsession at all. Creating one that works correctly with Unity or
> GNOME or whatever, as well as config
On 06/26/2015 04:22 AM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> ~/.xsessionrc is sourced using /bin/sh.
Actually it's sourced using /bin/bash since a few months (/bin/bash is
in the shebang line of /etc/sbin/lightdm-session).
> A default Ubuntu session does not invoke ~/.xsession at all. Creating
> one that work
Aha, I was confusing ~/.xsessionrc with ~/.xsession. ~/.xsessionrc is
sourced using /bin/sh. A default Ubuntu session does not invoke
~/.xsession at all. Creating one that works correctly with Unity or
GNOME or whatever, as well as configuring LightDM to invoke it it,
requires a very pointy hat.
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That error dialog is supposed to be helpful. ;) It was implemented (by
me) as a fix of bug #678421, which was originally filed as a bug about
GDM and Xsession, and one idea is to *prevent* that errors are silently
ignored.
On 06/26/2015 12:58 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
> if you don't care to fix this
Which is a good point actually... what if the user is a C shell user?
How does sourcing .profile help them? The "classic" way of setting this
up is clearly far superior.
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In point of fact .xsession is supposed to be an executable shell script
with a shebang line, it's not supposed to be sourced at all, or at least
historically that has always been the case. Theoretically the .xsession
file could be a C shell script so as long as it is executed instead of
sourced, t
Also slight correction: BASH does NOT automatically source .bashrc on
login shells; so .profile would need to source the environment file as
well.
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No, you misunderstand my comment. It doesn’t matter whether or not your
shell is bash. ~/.xsession file is sourced using /bin/sh, not using your
shell. You cannot expect to be able to source ~/.bashrc from
~/.xsession, no matter what your preferred shell is.
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@Myself: in my description I repeatedly used "interactive shell" when I
meant "login shell" instead. The distinction is important, (and thus
the shell makes the distinction)--the user's .profile is only sourced in
the latter case. On all other interactive shells it sources .bashrc
instead. This
@Derek: I don't know what's right and wrong here, but what does it
really matter in practice? Have you considered the mess which would be
the result if lightdm suddenly stopped to source ~/.profile?
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.xsession is sourced within /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. It wouldn’t make
sense to source .bashrc from it (unless you happened to write a .bashrc
that doesn’t use any bash features).
Also, .bashrc is sourced by _every_ interactive shell, so if you were to add
things to environment variables from .bash
See also Bug #1468834.
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