> The user's .profile is to be read by the shell, on interactive shell
> (i.e. terminal) logins ONLY
This is incorrect, .profile is read by the shell also when the shell is
non-interactive. Here is the quote from the bash manual:
> When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
>
On 06/26/2015 04:22 AM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
~/.xsessionrc is sourced using /bin/sh.
Actually it's sourced using /bin/bash since a few months.
A default Ubuntu session does not invoke
~/.xsession at all. Creating one that works correctly with Unity or
GNOME or whatever, as well as
@Derek: I don't know what's right and wrong here, but what does it
really matter in practice? Have you considered the mess which would be
the result if lightdm suddenly stopped to source ~/.profile?
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.xsession is sourced within /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. It wouldn’t make
sense to source .bashrc from it (unless you happened to write a .bashrc
that doesn’t use any bash features).
Also, .bashrc is sourced by _every_ interactive shell, so if you were to add
things to environment variables from
See also Bug #1468834.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468832
Title:
lightdm sources .profile
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
It is a
@Myself: in my description I repeatedly used interactive shell when I
meant login shell instead. The distinction is important, (and thus
the shell makes the distinction)--the user's .profile is only sourced in
the latter case. On all other interactive shells it sources .bashrc
instead. This is
No, you misunderstand my comment. It doesn’t matter whether or not your
shell is bash. ~/.xsession file is sourced using /bin/sh, not using your
shell. You cannot expect to be able to source ~/.bashrc from
~/.xsession, no matter what your preferred shell is.
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Also slight correction: BASH does NOT automatically source .bashrc on
login shells; so .profile would need to source the environment file as
well.
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On 06/26/2015 04:22 AM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
~/.xsessionrc is sourced using /bin/sh.
Actually it's sourced using /bin/bash since a few months (/bin/bash is
in the shebang line of /etc/sbin/lightdm-session).
A default Ubuntu session does not invoke ~/.xsession at all. Creating
one that works
Aha, I was confusing ~/.xsessionrc with ~/.xsession. ~/.xsessionrc is
sourced using /bin/sh. A default Ubuntu session does not invoke
~/.xsession at all. Creating one that works correctly with Unity or
GNOME or whatever, as well as configuring LightDM to invoke it it,
requires a very pointy hat.
Which is a good point actually... what if the user is a C shell user?
How does sourcing .profile help them? The classic way of setting this
up is clearly far superior.
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In point of fact .xsession is supposed to be an executable shell script
with a shebang line, it's not supposed to be sourced at all, or at least
historically that has always been the case. Theoretically the .xsession
file could be a C shell script so as long as it is executed instead of
sourced,
That error dialog is supposed to be helpful. ;) It was implemented (by
me) as a fix of bug #678421, which was originally filed as a bug about
GDM and Xsession, and one idea is to *prevent* that errors are silently
ignored.
On 06/26/2015 12:58 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
if you don't care to fix
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