Dear all,
I recently started using lxde. I have a bash-script I want to be executed during my login that sets up environment, run certain commands, etc, in my .profile. Note that it is /bash/-script, i.e. using bash syntax.
I am using ubuntu 14.04, lxde 0.5.0-4ubuntu4

However, it seems .profile is executed by /bin/sh, not by /bin/bash, despite my login shell being specified as bash in /etc/passwd. This means that the script does not work correctly. I have tried to execute .bash_profile from .profile with bash, but obviously, the child's environment is not preserved elsewhere in the session.

Is there a way to force to run my .profile using bash?

Cheers,
Ott

If ~/.bash_profile is present then bash uses it instead of .profile.

From .bash_profile you can run .profile by

... but the problem is that .bash_profile is not executed. lxde seems to run
I can call .bash_profile from profile as
but in this case the environment is not passed back to the login shell...

In this case put this line in .profile:

instead of 'bash .bash_profile'.

If I source it with 'source', will the .bash_profile then run by sh or by bash?

Anyway, thanks for thinking with me :-)

Yes. It will be run by sh or bash.

. .bash_profile can well include the environment but unfortunately it is execuded by sh, not by bash (and leads to a number of syntax errors because of that). Seems like I should talk to lxde gurus...

Thanks anyway :-)