Brieuc Desoutter (HE12026-05-14): > TL/DR: On Trixie with Gnome, right after login with… > - default .profile -> ~/bin and ~/.local/bin in PATH > - .profile as a symlink to the default .profile located in different > directory -> no ~/bin or ~/.local/bin in PATH > > Why?
If you are logging with Gnome, then no login shell gets invoked, and therefore .profile is not supposed to be sourced. If it is, that means something in the chain sources it explicitly, and it is entirely possible it does something like this: if [ -f "$HOME/.profile" ] ; then . "$HOME/.profile" fi A -f instead of -e would exclude symlinks. My two pieces of advice: 1. Be the master of your login process: start with a .xsession file that does exactly what you want it to do before it starts a desktop. 2. Use zsh instead of bash: its system of config file is more systematic and does not require one to source the other in weird ways to cover all cases. (Also its line editor is a lot better, especially with multi-line statements¹, and it has consistently a few years of advance for convenient shell features.) 1: Type this command: “for i in 1 2 3 ; do”, <enter>, “echo $i”, <enter>, “done”, <enter>, then use the arrow key to go back on the command in history. Then do the same with zsh. Regards, -- Nicolas George
