On 20131209_181204, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:14:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20131209_134124, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > I don't know if xfce has any impact on the > > > execution of ~/.profile at login. Have you tried to run your scripts > > > or looking at the output of export from a text console like tty1? > > > > The scripts run fine when invoked with a fully qualified name starting > > with / or when I have manually modified $PATH to include $HOME/bin: > > That doesn't answer my question. If you login from a text console, and > ~/bin appears in your path, then we would know that bash is sourcing > ~/.profile correctly. This would tell us that whatever problem you're > having, it has to do with how the GUI is sourcing ~/.profile, and not > anything with ~/.profile itself. Andri's reply seems to in fact > indicate that ~/.profile is sourced by xorg when logging in from the > GUI, whereas it gets sourced by bash when you login from a text > console. So, my question still stands.
Yes. I should have responded, and I apologize. The login was done with a graphical display manager. Which one exactly, I'm not sure. Per your analysis, I think I must not have done exactly what I think I did. And things have changed, so what was there then is no longer there now. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20131210202722.gb10...@big.lan.gnu
