.bash_profile not run when using graphical login

[Ross Burton]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 18:28 +0300, Ville Vainio wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:33 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> > Debian Policy says packages should work with no environmental variables
> > defined.  For the Java example, this is why there are /usr/bin/java
> > (etc.) alternatives which JVMs register with.
> 
> Well, the JDK from Sun didn't, for one ;-). I believe the user will
> definitely need to find the way to set environment variables for himself
> and Everyone.

Install Sun's JDK from Blackdown as a .deb, or Kaffe, or SableVM, or
gcj, and it will work.

> This should really be documented in all the places the user will look
> into. /etc/profile should have a comment telling the user what file the
> user should edit to change the global environment. The same applies to
> user specific environment. 

I think this is documented in gdm somewhere, but I don't have it
installed here.  I agree the GNOME sysadmin guide should discuss this.

> Red Hat has profile.d directory where global customizations can be
> placed. It seemed like a good idea to me. If Debian has no will to go
> the same route (and Ubuntu wishes to follow), some comments in the
> related files might be in order. ".gnomerc" is probably the last place
> people will look into...

On RH /etc/profile.d/ is only executed by /etc/profile, which is only
executed by bash.  If I change my shell to zsh, all of the environment
variables in /etc/profile* are ignored.

Ross
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