Ubuntu bug 1685754 seems specific to gnome-terminal. The bug I reported is for all gnome-session apps. Gnome-terminal can be made to work if a umask is added to .bashrc. This is not the case for other gnome apps like gedit. These bugs may be the same, but I don't know enough to be able to make that call.
I don't know for sure, but is this gnome bug might be related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780622 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #780622 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780622 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701757 Title: 17.04 (Zesty) does not source ~/.profile for umask Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have always set umask at ~/.profile and gnome-session would source this. But in Zesty, this isn't happening, and I can find no way to set a umask default of my choosing for the gnome-session. Creating a document using gedit always produces the default (unchangeable) permission represented by umask 022. If I adjust umask at ~/.bashrc, creating a document in nano or vi works to get a different umask. But Ubuntu users should be able to adjust umask for GTK3 apps (like gedit) as well. If there is a new way to set ~/.profile variables, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect this so people know how to set them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1701757/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
