On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 12:08:31 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
If you want that behavior, the simplest option would be to create
a ~/.xsessionrc file containing:
test -r ~/.profile && . ~/.profile
Make sure there's a space after the "." command.
~/.xsessionrc (not to be confused with ~/.xsession) is a Debian-specific
file that's read by the default Xsession regardless of which display
manager (or startx) was used to login.
