Bug#438866: gdm: Standard Xsession ignores ~/.xprofile

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:10 +0200, Michael Pronath wrote:
> The Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual says in section
> "Configuration", 6.2.1 Daemon Configuration, item "BaseXsession" that
> the standard script /etc/gdm/Xsession shipped with GDM will source the
> files /etc/profile, /etc/xprofile, ~/.xprofile
> I observe that this does not work in the Debian package.
> I'm not sure if this is a problem in gdm, or a deviation of Debian
> that's not mentioned in README.Debian.  With 2.18.1-2, the upstream
> version of Xsession is copied to the package, says the changelog.

This was recently fixed in the Ubuntu package,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/130941

--- /home/sa/Xsession	2007-09-03 20:40:18.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/Xsession	2007-09-03 20:38:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession
 # good for debugging where things went wrong
 echo "$0: Beginning session setup..."
 
+# First read /etc/profile and .profile
+test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
+test -f "$HOME/.profile" && . "$HOME/.profile"
+# Second read /etc/xprofile and .xprofile for X specific setup
+test -f /etc/xprofile && . /etc/xprofile
+test -f "$HOME/.xprofile" && . "$HOME/.xprofile"
+
 # Translation stuff
 if [ -x "/usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate" ] ; then
   gdmtranslate="/usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate"

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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