On 20131210_175158, Tixy wrote: > 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 >
Thanks. I had been told about ~/.xsessionrc , but in a context where it seemed that the file should already exist, and since I didn't have such a file, I was confused as to what to do. Now I am emboldened to actually create my own instance. Some things in programming can be quite magical. Some demon might be watching user hidden files and do nasty things if a new file suddenly appears without proper authorizaion. :-( > 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. It must be in some man page. You maybe learned it from someone else as I am learning from you. Thanks -- 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/20131210232925.gb4...@big.lan.gnu
