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bitrat

Member

Registered: 2023-07-19

Posts: 20

how do I call set the profile/environment in x login shell?

Hi,

I want to call a ~/.profile script.

I've tried .xsessionrc .xinitrc .xsession ....

Do I need to set an option somewhere?

ps: .xsessionrc seems to be used, as I can successfully prevent myself from logging in by putting errors in it, but the following has no effect:

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
    . ~/.profile
fi

Cheers,
bitrat

Last edited by bitrat (2023-07-23 03:25:18)

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: how do I call set the profile/environment in x login shell?

Hi.

What exactly are you after? Could you elaborate more?

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bitrat

Member

Registered: 2023-07-19

Posts: 20

Re: how do I call set the profile/environment in x login shell?

Hi.

What exactly are you after? Could you elaborate more?

Hi KBar,

I'm looking for somewhere to set environment variables that isn't called every time I login to a shell (ie, not .bashrc, etc).

Also, I'd like to have an environment that's set before X starts and one set when it starts.

Sorry, I've forgotten what I've looked at already, but none of the approaches I mentioned seemed to work.

Also, I'd prefer a method that doesn't prevent the system from starting if the file has errors.

Cheers,
bitrat