/etc/profile not valid for my bash?

[MrLavender]

According to this post it may be an issue with LightDM (which is the display manager used by Xfce). I have no problem with /etc/profile on KDE.

After 2024-02-21 Stable Update ~/.profile file is no longer sourced

Could be due to this patch to LightDM: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/lightdm/-/commit/75c048cabfe9693749f5f363ab6257400d954ffa So for Bash, /etc/lightdm/Xsession does not directly source /etc/profile and ~/.profile any more, but instead spawns a shell in --login mode. According to the Bash reference manual: When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /…