GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741874
In Wayland, not executing ~/.bash_profile
Last modified: 2014-12-30 21:10:45 UTC
I've got some stuff in my ~/.bash_profile that doesn't seem to happen when I run gnome-terminal in a GNOME Wayland session (in Fedora 21). It seems to work if I select "Run command as a login shell" in preferences, but the behavior should not be different between a Wayland session and a traditional X session. My gnome-terminal package is gnome-terminal-3.14.2-1.fc21.x86_64. vte pacakge is vte3-0.36.3-3.fc21.x86_64.
I suspect it's not because of gnome-terminal, but because of Fedora's wayland vs. legacy X startup scripts. Sure you can choose to launch a login shell in gnome-terminal, in which case it sources .bash_profile (again), but here I guess the difference is whether its contents are sourced before starting gnome-terminal. You could try to put export TIMESTAMP=`date` in .bash_profile, and then execute echo $TIMESTAMP in your shell, and see which timestamp it prints. My assumption: g-t is set to "Run command as login shell" (both X and Wayland) -> the time when that terminal window is opened "Run command as login shell" disabled -> in X I assume it's the timestamp of your login to the window environment (could you please confirm?), and with Wayland it'll be unset.
Ok, so I reset (via dconf) all gnome-terminal preferences to defaults, just to be sure I hadn't messed with anything. I load a traditional X session, and I see $PATH is set to indicate that ~/.bash_profile was invoked. I load a Wayland GNOME session, and I see that $PATH is not correct. I figured out that this is NOT gnome-shell's fault. The bash profile is being started by xinitrc-common. [mmeyer@timmah ~]$ grep profile /etc/X11/ -R /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common:if [ -r /etc/profile.d/lang.sh ]; then /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common: . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common:[ -r $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile [mmeyer@timmah ~]$ rpm -qf /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-2.fc21.x86_64 That's a bug in the Wayland init scripts, but do I report it to Wayland or to Fedora? Either way, marking as RESOLVED => NOTGNOME since it's something to do with packaging in Fedora.