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

[Sean van Buggenum]

Matthew L. Dailey <matthew.l.dailey at ...> writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

Hi Matthew, 

just saw your reply now. 
I had actually already tried sourcing .profile from the .xsession file .. 
It didn't work. Frustratingly, I also did not get results from sourcing it from 
90read_profile. So, i'm still researching. Thanks for the hope though! ;)