https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225482 werner@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jfunk@funktronics.ca ------- Comment #3 from werner@novell.com 2006-12-05 02:56 MST ------- Normally a X session is started by xdm/kdm/gdm with the help of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession. Within this script you'll find a shell function exec_login() which excutes the login shell of the user with the script /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession. If the users has its own ~/.xsession of its own ~/.xinitrc this will executed instead. Long words,short sence: this works flawless for me with and without my own ~/.xsession. Please provide more informations, without I'm not able what is different in your personal setup. You may also try a new and therefore virgin user to see if this normally works. Beside this all changes within ~/.profile during a running Xsession is only active after a fresh login or youhave to modify the konsole setup to use a login shell. You may also add a line . $HOME/.profile in ~/.bashrc if you want that all shell, even nologin shells, should know about the newest changes of ~/.profile. Beside this: only environment variables should be set within ~/.profile ... shell functions, shell aliases should always be set within ~/.bashrc because those things will not be exported througout several programs and scripts. For testing you may use the line set -x on the first empty line within /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession and read the log files /var/log/kdm.log and ~/.xsession-errors. Beside this you may add a line export FOOBAR profile to your personal ~/.profile and try to detect _after_ a fresh login yif you can add the line echo $FOOBAR with the result `profile'. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.