.bash_profile not run when using graphical login

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:32:03PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> Okay, further investigation is in order.

Works fine at the console with Knoppix 3.2 (booting "knoppix 2", so X
isn't started at all).  An xterm in the default KDE desktop behaved
oddly - shift-pgup worked, but also passed an unused '9' to the shell,
so the scroll kept dropping back down (new text, you want to see this)
then bouncing back up one half-window.  In gnome-terminal on Ubuntu I
get nothing at all sometimes, and often a stream of '9's (if I hold
shift+pgup down) that become tildes when I let it go, and continue
until I press another key.  But not always.

Booting Ubuntu (2.6.8.1-3-k7) in recovery mode, I get a message about
"uknown key released" when I press shift+pgup.  Right, while it's still
depressed.  When it starts autorepeating the console scrolls up (having
precharged it with "ls -l /bin").  Hmmm, and ctl-alt-del doesn't
work...

(BTW, while waiting for reboot... that looks to be an unwanted side
effect of having root's password shut off: the "recovery" boot takes
you straight into a root shell!  Okay, this isn't going on anything I
leave unattended then, is it?)

2.6.8.1-2-i386, recovery boot: same as -3-k7, bogus release message. 
Says it's code 0xe0, also the same.

I'm still not 100% certain that I might not have overlooked this weird
behavior on other recent use in various hardware configurations, but I
used to use this keyboard on my desktop machine a few years back, and
I'm sure it Just Worked back then.

Right, after dinner I'll see what I can scare up in the way of a
keyboard that doesn't make weird things happen and get back to trying
out Ubuntu as a desktop replacement.

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