On Vi, 18 nov 11, 17:53:50, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > > With bash, you'd edit "/etc/profile" or "~/.profile"; with zsh, no idea. > > That won't work for logins from an xdm such as gdm, kdm or lightdm. > Those are not in the execution path. Shells launched are not login > shells and nowhere in the path (by default) are any shells a login > shell and therefore no sourcing of any profile will ever happen. > > There are customizations that can be done to make shells login shells > or to have the entire xsession run from a login shell. (I think > making .xsession run as a login shell is the best solution. I have > posted about it several times before.) But by default adding > variables to /etc/profile won't in your shell environment. And > neither will it show up for any applications launched from the desktop > menu.
Works at least for gdm2 and slim, but not for lightdm. See #636108 for more info and also a workaround (source .profile in .xsessionrc) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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