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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 20 août 2007 à 14:10 +0200, Michael Pronath a écrit :
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.18.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> 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 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.

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