Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 26 Oct 2024 10:13 +0100, from c...@isbd.net (Chris Green): > > I have installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470. It all went > > pretty smoothly but for some reason when I do a GUI login my .profile > > doesn't get run. > > Is starting a GUI session (whether X11/Xorg or Wayland) even > _supposed_ to execute ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)? My > understanding is that it is not. > Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run ~/.profile.
> As I understand it, those are meant to be run by a _login shell_. This > sets them apart from e.g. ~/.bashrc which is read each time _bash_ is > started. > Yes, and entering one's name and password at GUI start-up **is** logging in. > And similarly for the corresponding system-wide files in /etc, of > course. > > **What problem are you _actually_ trying to solve?** Presumably > executing ~/.profile on GUI session startup isn't your end goal in > itself, but merely an attempt at a way to accomplish something else. > If you tell us what your end goal is, we might be able to suggest a > better way to accomplish that. > Setting things like PATH, it needs to be in .profile rather than .bashrc because otherwise things get added to PATH repeatedly. -- Chris Green ·
