Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 35

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 35

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

gfp@Tuxedo ~$ ps $(ps   -p $(pidof Xorg) -o ppid=)
   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
  1114 tty8     Ssl+   0:00 
/gnu/store/58hc6rh72z3r6zqazmavjnwbcyy6gkps-gdm-42.0/libexec/gd

it shows gdm-42.0 as my display manager
..........................................................................
> A quick search makes me think gdm sources .xprofile. So adding
>> source ~/.bash_profile
>> to ~/.xprofile should work.

this is in my .zprofile file, after adding the second sentence/your proposal

# Honor system-wide environment variables
source /etc/profile
# all Profile beim Start des Displays Managers öffnen
source ~/.bash_profile
..........................................................................

but it didn’t help to enable all profiles at login.


Kind regards

Gottfried


> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:19:45 +0200
> From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
> To: help-guix@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: to enable all profiles at login time
> Message-ID: <884d32da-1ab4-2755-098f-76f04d75f80a@uni-bremen.de>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 19.04.23 um 18:10 schrieb Gottfried:
>>
>>> but when starting MATE Desktop all my profiles are not enabled.
>>
>> graphical sessions environment is not controlled by .bash_profile (or
>> .profile)
> 
> If sddm is used, this statement is false. Does source that file (if bash
> is the users shell) and therefore it influenced the environment
> variables of all applications started the graphical environment.
> 
> Gottfried, what display-manager do you use?
> 
> Maybe this command can tell you:
> $ ps $(ps   -p $(pidof Xorg) -o ppid=)
> 
> Martin




> 

> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:54:29 +0200
> From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
> To: help-guix@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 29
> Message-ID: <5d84de6a-4076-a7cd-40f4-23e1808ee787@uni-bremen.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the other mail, I just saw this one.
> 
> Am 19.04.23 um 18:05 schrieb Gottfried:
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for help
>>
>> I have MATE 1.24.1 Desktop
>> and GDM as display manager
>>
> 
> A quick search makes me think gdm sources .xprofile. So adding
> source ~/.bash_profile
> to ~/.xprofile should work.
> 
> [1]: Somewhat helpful archwiki entry:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/environment_variables#Graphical_environment
> 
> 
> Martin
>

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Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 35

[Martin Castillo]

Hi,

Am 20.04.23 um 14:52 schrieb Gottfried:
> Hi,
> 
> gfp@Tuxedo ~$ ps $(ps   -p $(pidof Xorg) -o ppid=)
>    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>   1114 tty8     Ssl+   0:00 
> /gnu/store/58hc6rh72z3r6zqazmavjnwbcyy6gkps-gdm-42.0/libexec/gd
> 
> it shows gdm-42.0 as my display manager
> ..........................................................................
>> A quick search makes me think gdm sources .xprofile. So adding
>>> source ~/.bash_profile
>>> to ~/.xprofile should work.
> 
> this is in my .zprofile file, after adding the second sentence/your 
> proposal
> 
> # Honor system-wide environment variables
> source /etc/profile
> # all Profile beim Start des Displays Managers öffnen
> source ~/.bash_profile
> ..........................................................................
> 
> but it didn’t help to enable all profiles at login.

Ok, I can think of 2 potential problems. 1) xprofile is not read on 
login or 2) something is wrong with the lines in .bash_profile that 
should activate the profiles.

To test 1) add
echo reading xprofile on $(date) >>~/login.log
to your .xprofile and logout and back in.

If this file is really sourced on login, you should find the file 
~/login.log with a line saying something like reading xprofile on Do 20. 
Apr 16:13:21 CEST 2023.

If login.log does not exist, then maybe ~/.xprofile is not executable?
Try chmod +x ~/.xprofile and re-login.

If login.log exists, then there seems to be something wrong with the 
lines that should activate the profiles in .bash_profile.
To test 2) start a login shell with a clean environment
env - bash -l

and check whether that shell has all the profiles activated. If not, 
there is something wrong with your .bash_profile. You should post that then.

Martin

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 35

[Martin Castillo]

Small correction to the mail I just sent:

Instead of
env - bash -l
you might need to use
env - $(which bash) -l