xenodm uses your .xsession to set up your session rather than your .profile, so 
you want to source your .profile in there and then you should be good to go 
(after logging out and in again). Just throw this:
```
. .profile
```
at the top of your .xsession file.

On 3 March 2026 16:12:48 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>hi, trying to get work .profile with .kshrc 
>
>I am login to X using xenodm then I start i3. My problem going me crazy, I 
>just want to profile file to load my kshrc - but for some reason this does not 
>work. I was trying to find answer even using some AI, but still no working. 
>
>This is content of my files. 
>```
>openbsd$ cat .profile                                                          
># $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.8 2022/08/10 07:40:37 tb Exp $
>#
># sh/ksh initialization
>
>PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>export PATH HOME TERM
>export HISTFILE=~/.ksh_history
>export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>export ENV=$HOME/.kshrc
>export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>```
>and 
>```
>openbsd$ cat .kshrc                                                            
>                                                                               
>          
>alias ll='ls -lh'
>alias vim='nvim'
>
>#PS1='$$\e[32m$$\u@\h$$\e[33m$$ \w$$\e[0m$$ $ '
>
>openbsd$ 
>```
>
>anyone can help? Is xenodm controls above files? 
>
>--
>karcio
>

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