On 25/11/2023 10:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 10:28:13AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
SDDM does read /etc/profile and ~/.profile when starting a user session:
https://sources.debian.org/src/sddm/0.20.0-1/data/scripts/Xsession/
Interesting. I wondered whether that might be a Debian patch, since I
couldn't see mention of it in the upstream SDDM changelog.
You are right. I posted a link to a wrong file. It should be
https://sources.debian.org/src/sddm/0.20.0-1/debian/Xsession/
Perhaps added in
sddm (0.11.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Add the Xsession script. (Closes: #794419)
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-- Maximiliano Curia <m...@debian.org> Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:23:08 +0200
I expect that GDM contains similar code reading /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
LightDM Ubuntu package (but not Debian one) has it.
Ubuntu makes a change of that nature? That surprises me. It seems
uncharacteristically nerdy for their mission goal of dumbing everything
down to a common denominator. Could it be an upstream change instead,
with Ubuntu simply using a newer upstream version than Debian?
I think that patch was added when Unity was the default session and
LightDM was the default display manager. Nowadays it is Gnome and GDM.
