[Stable Update] 2024-02-21 - Kernels, KDE, VirtualBox, Calamares, ROCm, Firefox, Thunderbird

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Far more likely reason for ~/.profile not being loaded if you’re an Xfce user is this change to LightDM. Previously it was loading ~/.profile and other files

for file in "/etc/profile" "$HOME/.profile" "/etc/xprofile" "$HOME/.xprofile"; do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        echo "Loading profile from $file";
        . "$file"
    fi
done

Now it doesn’t do that, and neither bash or zsh will load ~/.profile by default (bash will load it only if there is no ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login, or if it’s launched with name sh or with --posix option).

Bash starup files

Zsh startup files

So yes, if you were relying on previous LightDM behaviour and still need ~/.profile to be sourced then you now have to do that from either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile as appropriate for your chosen shell.

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