.profile is not sourced in Debian Wheezy LXDE
But shouldn't it have been sourced during the graphical login?
There's a minor debate about that on which some graphical logins take an unusual stance...
I add $HOME/bin to $PATH from ~/.profile. However, it seems it is not sourced during login. I use a login manager - lxdm I think
Correct. Most DM's do read ~/.profile
when you log in. However, they must do this explicitly, since ~/.profile
is traditionally sourced by login shells and a DM (GUI login) is not a shell!
Which is the justification I have seen from the lightdm
people for not sourcing ~/.profile
explicitly -- because a DM is not a shell.
You can source ~/.profile
yourself from ~/.xsession
-- see here.
Agree with @goldilocks mostely. Just want to add that the script to source ~/.profile
is ~/.xsessionrc
, instead of ~/.xsession
.
Here is the rationale:
qxu@debian:/etc/X11/Xsession.d$ cat 40x11-common_xsessionrc
# This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
#Source user defined xsessionrc (locales and other environment variables)
if [ -r "$USERXSESSIONRC" ]; then
. "$USERXSESSIONRC"
fi
qxu@debian:/etc/X11$ grep USERXSESSIONRC Xsession
USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc
If bash is your login shell, then it will try ~/.bash_profile
, ~/.bash_login
and ~/.profile
in this order. It will however stop at the first one it finds.
If your ~/.profile
is not sourced, then it means you have either one of the other two (possibly both) in your HOME
directory. You should check which one, then place the new PATH
statement in the first one.