Hi,
5.
is there also a possibility to enable all my profiles when I log in
to my MATE desktop?
So that all applications (including terminal emulators, regardless of
their configuration) open with them already enabled? There's no such
possibility I know of :/
There is a way and I think it may even be standardized.
On my non-guix distro I use sddm as display-manager. On login, it
executes /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession as my user.
It contains:
9 case $SHELL in
10 */bash)
11 [ -z "$BASH" ] && exec $SHELL $0 "$@"
12 set +o posix
13 [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
14 if [ -f $HOME/.bash_profile ]; then
15 . $HOME/.bash_profile
16 elif [ -f $HOME/.bash_login ]; then
17 . $HOME/.bash_login
18 elif [ -f $HOME/.profile ]; then
19 . $HOME/.profile
20 fi
...
41 */fish)
42 xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX`
43 $SHELL --login -c "/bin/sh -c 'export -p' > $xsess_tmp"
44 . $xsess_tmp
45 rm -f $xsess_tmp
46 ;;
47 *) # Plain sh, ksh, and anything we do not know.
48 [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
49 [ -f $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile
So it does try to find shell specific config files (for those that it
knows about).
You need to know what display-manager (the program where you log in to
your user) you use and look at its documentation to see what files it
may source before it logs you in.
In that case, you don't need to launch bash as login shell in your
terminal, because all the profiles are activated when you login.
Martin
