[X2Go-User] user profile not loaded on login to remote ubuntu machine, x2go server with gnome-fallback-session

[Matthew L. Dailey]

Hi Mike,

I submitted the bug (with a patch :-) ) a little while ago.

-Matt

On Mar 22, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> can you report this (under your name) to X2Go BTS?
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs
> 
> This has to be fixed upstream in x2goserver-xsession!
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Fr 22 Mär 2013 18:43:27 CET "Matthew L. Dailey" wrote:
> 
>> Sean:
>> 
>> We had this exact problem when rolling out X2Go. Since X2Go doesn't actually spawn a login session, /etc/profile doesn't get sourced (and neither does ~/.profile).
>> 
>> To fix this for all users, we added a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90read_profile that looks like this:
>> 
>> # Source /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile
>> # This should fix path issues in X2Go sessions
>> if [ -r /etc/profile ]; then
>>  source /etc/profile
>> fi
>> if [ -r $HOME/.profile ]; then
>>  source $HOME/.profile
>> fi
>> 
>> To do this for just one user, you could theoretically put this same script in $HOME/.xsession - I haven't tried this myself.
>> 
>> I hope this helps.
>> 
>> --
>> Matthew L. Dailey
>> Systems Administrator
>> Thayer School of Engineering
>> Dartmouth College
>> 
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Sean van Buggenum <svaens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> user profile not loaded on login to remote ubuntu machine,
>>> x2go server with
>>> gnome-fallback-session
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Last night I setup the x2go qt-client and server on my home and work ubuntu
>>> 12.04/Unity machines.
>>> 
>>> Connection speed is great, and I am able to login mostly without trouble,
>>> except, my login user profile (found at .profile) is not loaded,
>>> meaning of course that none of the items i need to be on my PATH can be found.
>>> 
>>> As a work-around, I simply load it manually (source ~/.profile)
>>> and restart any applications using the current profile
>>> (nautilus, terminals etc).
>>> 
>>> However, i'd prefer not to have to implement this work-around,
>>> if there is a way
>>> to properly fix it, or have some automated process load it for me.
>>> 
>>> FYI, i've installed x2goserver and x2goserver-xsession on the server,
>>> and the QT4 x2goclient on the client.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any idea?
>>> 
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> 
>>> Sean
>>> 
>>> 
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