Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >On 24.06.06 00:00, Pavlos Parissis wrote: >> I have been trying to make my X to source the .bash_profile in order to >> set my $PATH variable. >> [...] >> Any idea where should I look to get this done?
>Some time ago I solved this problem by sourcing /etc/profile and >$HOME/.profile from /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession (I was using xdm). I have the following snippet as /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75local-profile : ----- # Source a users .profile, etc PROFILES="/etc/profile $HOME/.profile /etc/xprofile $HOME/.xprofile" for PROFILE in $PROFILES ; do [ -f "$PROFILE" ] && . "$PROFILE" done /bin/true ----- I added the xprofile bit just in case there was going to be something that I may want set up only when logging in via X. So far I dont have such a file (3 years laters) so it's probably unnecessary. >the $HOME/.profile is being sourced by bourne-compatible shells at user >login and should contain seting of environment variables like $PATH. That's an important point, as /etc/X11/Xsession runs under /bin/sh, not necessarily bash so you should make sure you split up your bourne shell compatible init and your bash (or other shell) specific init and possibly source ~/.profile from your .bash_profile. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
