gdm + .bash_profile

otoomet · 10-11-2004, 02:27 AM

Hi everybody,

I noticed that my new debian/sarge system does not execute .bash_profile if logged in from gdm, neither for gnome session nor X-session. This does not happen on my RH9.

Googling around gave some similar posts, the most realistic solution seems to be to hack the startup scripts and replace #!/bin/bash by #!/bin/bash -login in the relevant ones. However, this seems not to be a neat way to do it.

Does anybody have a better idea? Does anybody know why it is so?

Thanks in advance,
Ott

darthtux · 10-11-2004, 03:13 AM

I don't know if this is what you're looking for but you might want to add this to .bashrc

if [ -f ~/.bash_profile ]; then
source ~/.bashr_profile
fi

hazza · 10-11-2004, 03:19 AM

I remember having a similar problem with .bash_profile not being loaded under an X session. One way to fix it would be to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to replace "#!/bin/bash" with "#!/bin/bash --login" as you mentioned. I had compared a couple of distros at the time and that file seems to contain that difference.

otoomet · 10-18-2004, 12:47 AM

Thanks for your answer. As my wife has almoust occupied my computer, I hadn't the possibility (and need) to check it until now. The place to check is

/etc/gdm/Xsession

and I replaced #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash --login

I don't think it helps to read .bash_profile into .bashrc. The latter one is not started at all when non-interactive and hence e.g. window manager don't know anything about my personal environment setup. And hence everything I am starting using mouse.

Thanks anyway.

Best,
Ott