On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:15 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my > personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian > view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I > think, but have always hacked things until they seemed to be > working. Now, I want to try to do things in the way the developers had > in mind when they built the install CD images. > > I see the file ~/.profile . It contains code that tests for the > existence of ~/bin/ and adds it to $PATH , if it exists. But it > doesn't 'work'. After I have created my ~/bin/. and filled it with > some scripts, and rebooted, there is still no mention of ~/bin/ in > $PATH . Why? When does ~/.profile actually get invoked?
I don't know if this is 'the correct way' but what I do is create the file ~/.xsessionrc to invoke ~/.profile like: . /home/tixy/.profile I don't know where I picked that method up from originally, it's just in my notes of the steps for installing Debian on a new machine. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386697918.3377.19.ca...@computer5.home
