Another disadvantage of ~/.profile is that bash doesn't always read it. In fact 
this is noted at the top of that file itself (at least in my version).
I have some problems with the regional language settings (I want time/date in 
Dutch but text messages in English), but when I set the regional settings (with 
xubuntu's Applications > Settings > Language Support), suddenly Firefox and 
other things started to be in Dutch as well. In a terminal, far too many LC_* 
settings were suddenly nl_NL.UTF-8, according to the locale command. For a 
proper bug report, I wanted to reproduce this in a clean test account but I 
couldn't.
I suspect now that the fact that I have a ~/.bash_login file has something to 
do with it (so ~/.profile isn't read, or isn't always read, or something).
It's annoying that one can only test this by logging out; I can't quite seem to 
reproduce it in the test login either.

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  SetLanguage(): Write ~/.pam_environment instead of ~/.profile

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