Re: to enable all profiles at login time

[Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>]

Hi,

>> 5.
>> is there also a possibility to enable all my profiles when I log in
>> to my MATE desktop?
> 
> So that all applications (including terminal emulators, regardless of
> their configuration) open with them already enabled? There's no such
> possibility I know of :/

There is a way and I think it may even be standardized.
On my non-guix distro I use sddm as display-manager. On login, it 
executes /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession as my user.

It contains:
   9 case $SHELL in
  10   */bash)
  11     [ -z "$BASH" ] && exec $SHELL $0 "$@"
  12     set +o posix
  13     [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
  14     if [ -f $HOME/.bash_profile ]; then
  15       . $HOME/.bash_profile
  16     elif [ -f $HOME/.bash_login ]; then
  17       . $HOME/.bash_login
  18     elif [ -f $HOME/.profile ]; then
  19       . $HOME/.profile
  20     fi
...
  41   */fish)
  42     xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX`
  43     $SHELL --login -c "/bin/sh -c 'export -p' > $xsess_tmp"
  44     . $xsess_tmp
  45     rm -f $xsess_tmp
  46     ;;
  47   *) # Plain sh, ksh, and anything we do not know.
  48     [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
  49     [ -f $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile


So it does try to find shell specific config files (for those that it 
knows about).

You need to know what display-manager (the program where you log in to 
your user) you use and look at its documentation to see what files it 
may source before it logs you in.

In that case, you don't need to launch bash as login shell in your 
terminal, because all the profiles are activated when you login.

Martin