I believe even Gnome on 16.04 LTS is using the upstart user session rather than system user session. This could be part of why the Gnome bug discussion seemed to go around in circles.
Other possible sources of confusion: - ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc are strictly for shells. Nothing else reads them. This might work if you start X via the startx(1) tool after logging in to the console, like the old days. - Setting umask via GECOS field requires pam_umask(8) to be in the PAM stack for the service in question. It may or may not be. Check /etc/pam.d/ files to be sure. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685754 Title: gnome-terminal unduly forces umask=0022 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1685754/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
