How to run .profile, etc

[Joe Riel]

On Fri, 22 May 2020 08:59:05 -0500
Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2020 10:16:16 -0700
> Joe Riel <joer at san.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > When xfce4 starts (I use a graphical login), 
> > how does one get it to run $HOME/.profile or something equivalent?  
> 
> 
> Sounds like you want $HOME/.xprofile instead; xdm's Xsession 
> uses it, but no idea if other login managers do...

I use xfce4 with lightdm.  The file $HOME/.xprofile never gets executed,
so far as I can tell (added code to write to file).  

Do I need to reboot to execute it?  Or should logging out and 
logging back in (graphical login) suffice?  It doesn't.


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Joe Riel