.bash_profile not sourced

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:03:37PM -0700, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under XFCE4, my sessions do not reflect the contents of my 
> .bash_profile.  It works under a Gnome login, but not with XFCE4.
> 
> If I do a "source .bash_profile" from the xterm, the additional PATH 
> info shows up.  Any ideas what is happening?
> 
> I'm using a locally compiled XFCE4 4.0.5 on RHEL 3.0.
> 
This is the standard ".profile only gets executed at login" thing
isn't it?  I'm not sure of the exact details with bash but for other
shells:-
    csh - .login only executes at login, .cshrc executes for every
    shell invocation
    ksh - .profile only executes at login, if ENV is set then what it
    points at will be executed at every invocation (I *think*)

Presumably bash has a similar sort of setup.

I expect a Gnome login executes your .bash_profile explicitly
somewhere whereas your xfce startup doesn't.  It's probably simplest
just to add your .bash_profile to the startup sequence somewhere.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)