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Re: A .profile puzzle

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 01:42:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 18 October 2021 01:12:42 Will Mengarini wrote:
> 
> > * Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> [21-10/17=Su 12:18 -0400]:
> > > [...] opening a terminal hasn't called
> > > a ". .profile" since about jessie [...]
> >
> > Check whether you *also* have either .bash_profile or
> > .bash_login, because either of those supersedes .profile:
> >
> > ls -lA ~/.bash_{profile,login}
> 
> Neither present, just .bashrc, and .bash_logout

That's as expected, then.  Your .profile is not being read *now* because
it's not supposed to be, if you use a Display Manager to login.

Your .profile *used* to be read by terminals, because previously, your
terminals had been configured to run login shells.  However, I'd bet it
was *not* read by your session, meaning any changes to the environment
would not be seen by graphical applications that you launched directly
from your Desktop or your WM, without going through a terminal.

Assuming you run a Debian X11 Session via a Display Manager, and also
assuming you don't have a .xsession file, you probably want to configure
your environment in ~/.xsessionrc (note the "rc" on the end).

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A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-17 18:40 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 19:30 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-17 19:40 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-22 17:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-17 20:10 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:30 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-17 19:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:20 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-17 21:50 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 23:00 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-17 23:20 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 02:40 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-10-18 03:20 +0200
              Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 06:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-18 05:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-10-18 07:30 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 07:50 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 15:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 15:50 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-18 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-24 04:10 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-24 05:30 +0200

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