Re: .bash_profile problems under gnome

From: s. keeling (keeling_at_spots.ab.ca)
Date: 06/06/04

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    Incoming from Adam Siepel:
    > Hi -- I'm using gdm, gnome, and bash, and can't seem to get things set up
    > so my .bash_profile gets read properly upon login. I've seen some messages
    > on various lists that advised explicitly sourcing .bash_profile in
    > .xsession for proper startup -- problem is related to Xsession being run as
    > /bin/sh rather than /bin/bash, I think. This seems like kind of an awkward
    > soln, but I can live with it. Now I'm finding, though, that my .xsession
    > *also* doesn't seem to be getting read, despite that everything seems to be
    > in order (/etc/X11/Xsession okay, no ~/.Xsession in the way,
    > allow-user-xsession in Xsession.options, etc.).

    How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
    ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
    favour of ~/.xinitrc.

    With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should
    be:

      #!/bin/bash --login

    which will make it a login shell, and your bash startup files will be
    sourced. The file in question must be made executable (ie., chmod 755 ~/.xsession). 

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