Problem with bash login.

[Thomas Charron]

  Same question asked somewhere else:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03225.html

  Thomas

On 7/14/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday, Jul 14th 2006 at 13:35 -0400, quoth Ben Scott:
>
> =>On 7/14/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> =>> I used to view myself as one of the top authorities on bash issues.
> =>
> => This isn't really a bash issue, per se...
> =>
> =>> How in the Wide Wide World Of Sports do I get my .bash_profile to
> execute
> =>> when I log in using gdm.
> =>
> => Do you mean for shell's started in an xterm, or for *all* programs
> =>that get run from X (assuming there is a difference for you)?
> =>
> => Shell's started in an xterm are non-login shells by default.  That
> =>means .bashrc is run, but .bash_profile is not.  There's a couple ways
> =>to address this.  One is to add the "-ls" (I think that's it, check
> =>the man page) switch to xterm, which asks for a login shell.  Another
> =>approach is to put everything you want in one file, and have both
> =>.bashrc and .bash_profile source that file.  (Or have one of them
> =>source the other.)
> =>
> => Now, maybe you want *all* X programs to get your .bash_profile
> =>environment.    That's probabbly the Right Thing anyway.  Now, until
> =>you start an xterm, there's nominally not going to be a bash instance
> =>running at all.  Having gdm fire off a shell isn't going to do
> =>anything useful, because nothing else will inherit the environment
> =>from that shell.
> =>
> => What you need to do is put whatever environment you want in your
> =>.xinitrc/.Xclients/.Xsession/whatever file.  Or, more likely, put it
> =>all in a separate file, and source that from both .bash_profile and
> =>.xwhatever.  The .xwhatever file is what gdm runs when you login.
> =>It's job is to start your window manager (or session manager, or
> =>desktop environment, or whatever).  It is often a shell script itself.
> =>
> => If you don't have an .xwhatever file, look under the /etc/X11/ tree
> =>to find the system's version of it, copy that to your home directory,
> =>and modify.
> =>
> => Hope this helps,
>
>
> This is really frustrating. I want to log into a linux box which is
> running gdm such that after I have logged in, any app that I start will be
> running in the environment that is normally established in my
> .bash_profile. I do not set environment variables in the .bashrc because
> they're not supposed to be set there. I do not want every xterm that I
> start to have to be its own login process. If I was to go and set a
> symlink from .bash_profile to .xsession it would be the same thing as
> creating a shell script that did a cd followed by an exit. I want the
> entire session to have my environment established so that when I try to
> run things they will be running in the environment that I define. The
> description below explains why linking .xsession to .bash_profile is a
> waste of time.
>
>    allow-user-xsession
>      If users have an executable file called .Xsession in their home
>      directories,  it  can  be  used as the startup program for the X
>      session (see Xsession(5)).  If the file is present but not  exe-
>      cutable,  it  may  still  be used, but is assumed to be a Bourne
>      shell script, and executed with sh(1).
>
>
> People must have done this in the past.
>
>
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