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h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=Kn6vdGD2WO23AcS+IXGcp5Vixkl5TjvqNT4X/BvtIObxUjMwE4LUA6tF97cvV/I50 JwstN3nrJZdF7pjxQSzwl8gr1ynkHU8L38F3RL3FieKoa/phUDnd87w7BlnaC7hdal MZlSWJJfMuONTj5GisD4UMwZ8MYBGLRyiF9UTIRQ= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Received: from [10.0.0.14] ([71.227.85.179]) by mail.gmx.net (mrgmx105 [212.227.17.174]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M5fMY-1oPHlR3AOw-007BbN for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:42:59 +0200 Message-ID: <5556798a-b9a5-6f58-2c41-7563e771516b@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 17:42:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.0 Subject: Re: zprofile and .profile sourcing To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: Content-Language: en-US From: Eric Cook In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:QreVohRkOsbUfYslGgveaf9j3fq8vIK2P+bZv/AQTgLgXkHKla9 llJxFb0zsepmRvOXeayEwk/55gs9vDTdzXaVQzS1MGa//i+LaKQ0KAieVFaxAJ9aoHyw5RI nNEwY1LCcGOhPwfYcTfnfqolHJ65TeSHJcBVnvJmsBR2nPHa7cbXLMlC52PEUcaFo/ZyUX/ 91dOtiCqvJdpMnK1mWdDw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:Iq6ZHQrMbMo=:2C6llOfdY7PFdb/2uHMuNP xLMMzH3ON2P+bra50u+NXQIqAVeOLeD47+RZ1SHaM/EVIIHv7noNCaTWA5cwRwO2QtCzRDWyZ B88ba5bdfezPWf5CzSN4yDgGIbwK9mAWHX3ds6wjwPPG1ZTI86locvVmvfnP4QFoYcdgcFcYg p45abVTQr1gnP9OyvV4qjvdF5geKUjd/L2MUNRpcQOcSh/khBN/pMst4/bGws9TeSCQNasjPP 1SgFpGSzqg0GXcl/KrWKBnMX2K6Ede7tnsVbPonzLpWqwmbeiGBQRtnOqf5yVrWbuWZC84Q+a ZOvFzRuWb2+LXhhLUQzEWATpLoEeqovFr7/+ah8+KguC5diD2k9sdnp16WVVcsBZ83qUAoy8u OQXwcFQyiqtBG32XOyPDGoUYB8bdU6RAFlePqWYjxDVIwGjmZY0XtcFYd4HB5wU5Rwh+CPBcw Ahpuu3ahPmWDFlRFMCRnmcuKw0w+6qbHMXx7e2vqtHoUjq7qBTZ+LqzVtEQbTOXuqogjETy72 0CS0UEZ9RUrXxwBl77ZOksm+u72StwYKud8g5aRJr2Wn3j59/lB2Q5kliFuGqofIB39o9wKPZ uUcDmkXG3IOiOKcI6OJ1+zNVWudeg/Zsb0RamQu71hJHaBRvo+7y1MKTclPkMYH2u9n2Svq05 Yy9JKn2WuoTIrZMplbZLW676Wl5MDLcQsNrx27zypCUUwhueeZVMK+ce6aujSpDrUYFIaX3PZ ZJyCko3se+Rr3NDoFEBPqQG3mOMJ8WpYZfnQL67OG1iVSViOJl6DqwPqFBjl1F0kga5X0Fp6Y RhXWz1ex6K88kVLJlG2m5D1yCFqeyTEcKpVBHPNX/gkpWUosedjgY5Ts7T6qsherg0Ve2xUmN z0h0HrJrLQU1BrhBpUJGk4yoWtCkVkZI2o8sHCoA6tgtVWBh+E/Qxot0OKSWV4hdh6ds+0jfi Hp0iX+ok7THkMBNdEX5NCg0hsF2aLTiHqiJRvxjDjzLCKjYdAc4TIJn6HzlDDCyZzmUvCAc15 n1m4HSYDFq+obaNtWY2CLjZF3+n/pkv/EYAF4y9QUquQQJQs+AtQlYmZFfS976pbuudtK+KTJ d3GJfPLBgBwd2Trwd5z1DEELohUMjY6yWP0cE4TWDSFywhiZcY2tDQj4m2OLj8rIRvnNclmdm cNeTM= X-Seq: 28054 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 9/8/22 17:37, Piscium wrote: > I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out why ~/.profile is > sourced in some cases and not in others. > > I am on Arch Linux, and zsh is my login shell. If I log in to Arch > over lightdm to a Xfce session, then a variable defined in .profile > becomes part of my environment. I think this is because in Arch > /etc/zsh/zprofile has a single statement that calls /etc/profile in sh > compatibility mode: > https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/zsh/trunk/z= profile > > And here is /etc/profile: > https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/filesystem/= trunk/profile > > However if within Xfce I log in to a Linux console with Ctrl-Alt-F4; > or if I log in to a headless (no X, no Wayland) Arch VM in VirtualBox; > then a variable defined in .profile does not become part of my > environment. Why? > > The Zsh man page says (in different sections): > "Login shells source /etc/profile followed by $HOME/.profile." > "If the shell is a login shell, commands are read from > /etc/zsh/zprofile and then $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile." > > ~/ zsh --version > zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > > What am I missing? > One of more possible things around your display manager is happening, 1) not using your login shell to start graphical environment, but does use= s a shell that reads .profile 2) it is manually checking for and sourcing it before starting the graphic= al environment, possibly with or without your login shell 3) something else unrelated to zsh.