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

[Michael Pronath]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This is a divergence between Debian and Redhat-based distributions that
> has been here for long. Redhat reads the profile for X sessions, while
> Debian doesn't. This is related to Redhat positioning lots of required
> environment variables in the profile, while the Debian policy explicitly
> forbids requiring environment variables for a binary to work.
>   

Differences between RedHat and Debian are fine for me.  I posted the 
report because the documentation delivered with the Debian package does 
not correctly describe the way how the software of the Debian package 
works.  If the software behavior is modified in comparison to the 
upstream version, then the documentation should be changed accordingly.