On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 10:51:53AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > 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.
Yep, that would be one of the candidates. That's why I'm insisting Brieuc tries things like "bash -l" and reports the results. Actually "shopt login_shell" will tell you (with bash at least) whether your current shell thinks it is a login shell. > 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. That's what I usually do for shells running beneath X. > 2. Use zsh instead of bash [...] This is not really helpful: I know zsh can do many tricks bash can't, and there are reasons for it (and against, mind you), but this doesn't address OP's problem. Cheers -- t
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