See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765 for the full BTS discussion.
martin f krafft wrote: > On all KDE systems I administer, ~/.bash_profile is never read. This has gotten a lot of discussion lately on debian-user. Look at all of the postings about this! And these are not all of them, just those found after a brief search. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/03/msg00255.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/09/msg02518.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/03/msg17308.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/05/msg03884.html - Which started this bug! http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg01093.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg00669.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg01990.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02270.html I list those many out just to show that many people are having problems. In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg04016.html Mike Allen suggests: > Another method that uses the user's default shell is to change: > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start > > to read: > > exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" Clever. I like it. But I point out in the next note that 'exec -l' is a bash'ism and that #!/bin/bash would be needed for Xsession. But otherwise I can't find anything seriously wrong with this solution. It nicely solves the problem of specifying the shell by not specifying the shell. I would normally eschew non-posix shell solutions like this but can't see a reasonable substitute. The only downside that I can see is that if someone already has a ~/.xsession with '#!/bin/bash --login;exec x-session-manager' then the environment scripts are read twice when the user logs in with [gkx]dm. But that hardly seems like an overwhelming disadvantage. In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg02361.html Mike further points out that Red Hat uses just that technique. That is, the technique of doing the following pseudo-code. #!/bin/bash exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" I think a solution has been found by Red Hat. I think Debian should implement the same technique. It promotes compatibility between the distros. It resolves a long running xdm login problem for newbies. Comments? Bob -- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.proulx.com/~bob/ CP-ASEL-IA-Tailwheel-Glider
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