Questions tagged [.profile]
A user-specific (not systemwide) configuration script executed when starting login shells.
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Environment configuration not reflected when switching users in Ubuntu 22.04
I have two users named Alice and Sally on my Ubuntu 22.04 system. Alice has configured her environment variables in the .profile file, and they are working correctly for her. However, when Alice ...
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Adding a nohup command to .profile
This has been annoying me for a while. There's this Polybar module called Greenclip that is equivalent to the clipboard icon we see in some DEs such as KDE. In order for it to work, I need to run the ...
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Add permanently environmental variable to Ubuntu
I work with Ubuntu 18.04, and using softwares like: petalinux, Vivado.
Each time i want to open vivado for example, I open terminal and type:
source /opt/XIlinx/Vivado/2020.2/settings64.sh
This is ...
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Dot gitconfig file not reflecting when switch user on ubuntu 22.04 lts
Today I have installed Ubuntu22.04LTS. In that, i had a user bob and his git config is like
user.name=Bob B
[email protected]
alias.unadd=reset HEAD
I Had another user named quealy . when i ...
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These commands (setxkbmap and xcape) are in .profile but are not being executed on login
I have verified that .profile is executed on login.
However, commands involving setxkbap (e.g. setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps) and xcape (e.g. xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape') seem to be ignored.
Since ...
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Where should `setxkbmap us_programmer` go to make it persistent?
Where should my custom setxkbmap us_programmer goto to make it persistent when I log into Ubuntu graphically and also from SSH?
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What is the correct shell path to export in .profile for Mastodon and Rails?
@steeldriver's answer to In a bash script, how do I change from root user to another user using su and then exit? works great for using sudo and su in a bash script, but a new issue has to do with the ...
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how to fix wrong ram usage in system monitor with environment variables
when I add environment variables to a program's .desktop shortcut, the program appears to only use around 100-250 kb ram when its using 1-3 gb ram.
this problem appears in the applications tab in ...
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Old firefox profiles as Firefox uses snap now in Ubuntu 22.04
I've just migrated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04.
My firefox profile was previously located in the .mozilla/firefox home folder.
Now I can see there is also a profile in the same name in snap/firefox/...
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.bash_profile guidance
I want to know if there is any guidance I should be following somewhere (maybe from a man page or something) regarding creation of a ~/.bash_profile. By default Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have one, it just ...
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Display Git branch in brackets inside Ubuntu terminal using custom .profile script
I have this custom .profile script:
PS1='\[\033]0;WSL2 Bash\W\007\]' # set window title
PS1="$PS1"'\n' # new line
PS1="$PS1"'\[\033[36m\]' # change to green
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What goes in ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc?
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around what belongs in ~/.profile and what belongs in ~/.bashrc.
From what I've read, it seems to me that ~/.profile should be used for environment variables and ~/....
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Stuck booting to black screen after adding new xrandr mode
One of my monitors is 2560x1440, 60Hz capable but my Ubuntu 20.04 was only allowing me to set the maximum display resolution to 1920x1080. I followed the instructions in this post Unable to set my ...
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Where to Source your .Profile (Ubuntu 21.10)
Recent instructional video I was watching said to put your export PATH="$PATH..." statement in your .profile and after sourcing manually in the terminal to append ". ~/.profile" to ...
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Is ~/.profile effectively sourced on non-login shells?
I see that the path variable is defined in my .profile file, and not in my .bashrc file. I have not changed either file. When using a shell initiated from the terminal icon on my desktop GUI, I can ...
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Is there a default way to run commands on user's logout?
I want to log the logins/logouts of my users.
For the logins I only need to modify /etc/profile and add my command or edit any .profile for an specific user.
But for the logouts I don't know if there ...
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xmodmap not running in .profile
I recently followed this guide to get some keys mapped to my Alt Gr https://medium.com/@retprogramisto/how-to-make-custom-keyboard-map-with-xmodmap-1341a1552d4f
It worked fine, but when it came to ...
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After upgrading to 21.10, .profile batch file is not being executed at session startup
Recently, I upgraded my computer to release 21.10. So I'm facing some issues related to it.
Among then, .profile is not being executed when I login.
it's weird, because I used to have this kind of ...
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why my .xprofile file doesn't work?
I have xorg and xinit and I want to start some commands before the X environment. I did this many times and idk bc doesn't work.
I made a touch ~/.xprofile and here I wrote the command that I want to ...
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~/.profile not reloading [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
Wanted to know why changes are not reflected when I change
the ~/.profile and reloading the file using
source ~/.profile or . ~/.profile
The changes are only ...
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Error while loading .profile on ubuntu 20.04
Yesterday I have changed my .profile to include go path. And it looks like this:
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
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Ubuntu Desktop: Why the .profile script is executed in an interactive non-login shell?
I understand about the difference between Interactive login and Interactive non-login
According with this excellent post: Zsh/Bash startup files loading order (.bashrc, .zshrc etc.) we have the ...
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.profile suddenly doesn't like comments [duplicate]
I'm running Xubuntu 20.10 on a MBA 2012. I wanted to use my GTK theme on a QT program, so I did a little searching and ended up with adding export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 to my ~/.profile. That ...
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All Input Methods frozen, how to edit .profile file
I was trying to permanently disable the touchscreen on my ubuntu 20 by writing the following code in my .profile file :
xinput disable $16 // for my touchscreen device
Now after rebooting all of my ...
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Error found while loading /etc/profile, Ubuntu 20.04
Every time I boot up and Sign in to the account, before getting the desktop screen, I get this error message. I tried looking up stackoverflow & askubuntu but all were different from my error.
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dot gitconfig file not reflecting when switch user on ubuntu 20.04 lts
gitconfig not reflecting after switching to user
Today i have installed Ubuntu20.04LTS . In that i had a user bob and his git config is like
user.name=Bob B
[email protected]
alias.unadd=...
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20.04 "Error found when loading /home/user/.profile Failed to write reboot parameter file" after boot
Every time I boot into Ubuntu I get this error message
Error found when loading /home/user/.profile
Failed to write reboot parameter file: permission denied
Everything seems to work normally ...
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Error found when loading /home/[username]/.profile, tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
When I login to my system, I got this popup:
Error found when loading /home/[username]/.profile:
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
As a result the session will not be configured correctly....
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Remove brew completely from my system
I interrupted the execution of homebrew while installing. Consequently, I ran into a problem mentioned here Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:. I had to comment eval statements in the ...
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Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:
Previously, I was needed to install homebrew. I opened the terminal and executed the command for it. However, it was taking to long and I was also short on the data limit. So, I interupted the ...
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How do I run a command with uxterm after running ~/.bashrc lines in Ubuntu 18.04?
My ~/.profile file has the following code
source ~/.bashrc
When I run the following command, uxterm firefox
I do not see any log of the lines of the file ~/.bashrc on the corresponding uxterm window ...
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Which bash profile file should I use for each scenario?
I have seen many detailed explanations on how .bashrc, .bash_profile and the various other profile files interact, so I'm not after an explanation of how they fit together (I've read many such ...
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Where are profile files sourced?
I am setting PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my ~/.profile and expect these variables to bet set system-wide (for my user at least). However, upon inspection I find PATH is set correctly but LD_LIBRARY_PATH ...
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Can I run apt apt-mark in .profile script?
Can I run an apt-mark command in home/.profile?
I added the line as it works in the terminal (apt-mark showmanual >> ~/installed_packages.txt) but after I logged out and tried to log back in, ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Login Loop .- bashrc and .profiles edited
When I enter my password on the login-screen, the screen goes black for a couple of seconds before it returns to the login-screen. I.e. login loop.
I can log-in through remote desktop and SSH (puTTy).
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Including ssh-agent in .profile at boot
I am using 20:04 desktop and have added some code to .profile to start ssh-agent. If this code is present, I get what appears to be a spurious error message saying that an error occurred. The script ...
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`alias` command in `.profile` not recognized until `source .profile` is called
I have the following line in my .profile file in my home directory:
alias flux='redshift -O 2500'
But whenever I login and type flux I get a flux is not a recognized command.
I then do a source ....
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Is ~/.profile read? [duplicate]
I'm quite a newbie, but I know every time you start Terminal, some files are taken into account; and among those there is ~/.profile, which contains the following lines:
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ]...
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.profile not beeing sourced
some time ago I installed byobu and ran byobu-enable and it still didn't started automatically, I just ignored it since I could just press super and open up byobu terminal directly. But now I tried to ...
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Help me find the source of this item in my $PATH
When I start a new shell, I end up with the following $PATH:
/home/ldt/.local/bin:/home/ldt/bin:/home/ldt/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper/shims:/home/ldt/.pyenv/libexec:/home/ldt/.pyenv/...
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Set global environment variables from a custom file
I am trying to execute a file containing environment variables so that whenever I log in, those variables are immediately accessible.
The $PATH variable is defined in /etc/environment so underneath ...
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how to retrieve profile in ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted the .profile in my Ubuntu 18.04 today. How to retrieve this.
regards,
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How to fix ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc syntax errors
Ubuntu 18.04.4 (automatic upgrade from 18.04.3 just a few weeks ago)
/bin/bash
After I log in from the Gnome shell, this message appears while the screen is just plain purple and before the desktop ...
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The same string twice in the $PATH environmental variable
When I run $PATH on my terminal in Ubuntu 18.04.3, it displays the following:
/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/...
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how to run or re-load /etc/profile.d/ scripts?
From within the GUI, I'm seeing this result:
My problem is exactly that this does not happen in the terminal run
under the graphical user interface; neither in Ubuntu 16.04.3 or
18.04. – Thomas ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 boot error: syntax error :unexpected end of file when loading .profile
I am unable to do anything after this dialog box appears:
/home/hp/.profile: line 31:syntax error :unexpected end of file
As a result the session will not be configured correctly. You should fix the ...
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Syntax error when signing onto the bash subsystem (WSL)
I am trying to sign onto the bash Windows Subsystem for Linux when I get this error:
-bash: /home/User1/.profile: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Before getting this error I was ...
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Why doesn't gdbus output work when invoked from ~/.profile?
If I open a terminal and run the below script, it works fine. The values from the gdbus call get written to the lockScreenTest.txt file. The values are true when the screen is locked and the values ...
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Stata installation: how to add stata to the .profile PATH?
I am completely new to Linux and have no idea what to do.
What I am trying to do is the following: I want to install Stata 16 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 64-bit.
I followed the stata installation guide and ...
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Error found when loading /etc/profile [mariadb,mysql]
Booting to Ubuntu 19.04 I get black screen (frozen and not able to press the OK button) with this error message popup:
Error found when loading /etc/profile
find:'/usr/lib/mysql/plugin/...
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