How to run .profile, etc

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu May 21 23:12:02 CEST 2020


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:04:34PM -0700, Joe Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 21:08:24 +0200
> Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk at familieknaak.de> wrote:
> 
> > Joe Riel <joer at san.rr.com> schrieb am 21. May 2020:
> > 
> > > When xfce4 starts (I use a graphical login), 
> > > how does one get it to run $HOME/.profile or something equivalent?  
> > 
> > You can add the profile script to the list of application that are
> > run when the session starts:
> > 	Settings → Session_and_Startup → Application_Autostart → +Add
> > 
> > ---<)kaimartin(>---
> 
> Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> 
It's unnecessary, .profile is run anyway.  See my previous comment, if
you think it *isn't* being run then there's something wrong somewhere.

-- 
Chris Green


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