Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12

From	Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12
Date	2023-11-25 10:50 +0100
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On 25/11/2023 10:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 10:28:13AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> SDDM does read /etc/profile and ~/.profile when starting a user session:
>> https://sources.debian.org/src/sddm/0.20.0-1/data/scripts/Xsession/
> 
> Interesting.  I wondered whether that might be a Debian patch, since I
> couldn't see mention of it in the upstream SDDM changelog.

You are right. I posted a link to a wrong file. It should be
https://sources.debian.org/src/sddm/0.20.0-1/debian/Xsession/
Perhaps added in

sddm (0.11.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium
[...]
   * Add the Xsession script. (Closes: #794419)
[...]
  -- Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org>  Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:23:08 +0200

>> I expect that GDM contains similar code reading /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
>> LightDM Ubuntu package (but not Debian one) has it.
> 
> Ubuntu makes a change of that nature?  That surprises me.  It seems
> uncharacteristically nerdy for their mission goal of dumbing everything
> down to a common denominator.  Could it be an upstream change instead,
> with Ubuntu simply using a newer upstream version than Debian?

I think that patch was added when Unity was the default session and 
LightDM was the default display manager. Nowadays it is Gnome and GDM.

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Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@posteo.eu> - 2023-11-23 11:10 +0100
  Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-23 11:50 +0100
    Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-23 15:20 +0100
      Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-23 16:40 +0100
      Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-23 21:10 +0100
  Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-23 15:10 +0100
    Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-23 17:00 +0100
      Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-23 18:30 +0100
        Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-24 18:00 +0100
          Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-24 18:20 +0100
            Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-25 04:30 +0100
              Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-25 05:00 +0100
                Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12 Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-25 10:50 +0100

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