Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile

2011-08-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[Bcc'd all *dm maintainers and debian-x, in case they want to comment, apologize if you get this multiple times] Dear Debian Developers, Background: most common ways[1] of logging in to a Debian system involve executing or sourcing ~/.profile at some point, but not all of them. [1] tested gdm,

Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile

2011-08-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2011-08-01 at 11:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I won't comment on your statement that the dm is not the right place, > but I strongly believe ~/.profile should be sourced from somewhere by > *default*, just as it is done on a console login. It's read by bash (and zsh and few other s

Bug#636108: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636108: lightdm: does not source ~/.profile

2011-08-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 31 iul 11, 14:40:09, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > tag 636108 wontfix > thanks > > On dim., 2011-07-31 at 12:01 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > lightdm is not sourcing ~/.profile like other dm do (at least gdm2 and > > slim). > > # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne she