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       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Gnome wayland session doesn't source ~/.profile

Status in gnome-session:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  In Progress
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in gnome-session source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-session source package in Yakkety:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
  ======
  Logging in with GDM3 and choosing GNOME on Wayland gives me a session where `$HOME/.profile` **hasn't** been sourced.

  Where as logging on with standard GNOME gives me a session where
  `$HOME/.profile` **has** been sourced.

  Test Case
  =========
  This test case assumes you haven't removed any lines from the default ~/.profile that is created for you.
  mkdir ~/bin
  Log out. Click your user name and choose GNOME on Wayland from the gear button and then Log in.
  Open a terminal. Run
  env | grep PATH

  PATH will not contain /home/username/bin as the first entry

  From Ubuntu GNOME, install the updated gnome-session packages
  Log out. Log in to GNOME on Wayland
  Open a terminal. Run
  env | grep PATH

  PATH will contain /home/username/bin as the first entry

  When you're done testing, feel free to remove ~/bin if you haven't put
  any other files in that directory.

  Regression Potential
  ====================
  This update was pushed to Fedora 25, which uses Wayland by default although X is still available there.

  Ubuntu GNOME still uses X by default although "GNOME on Wayland" is
  available as an included option in Ubuntu 16.04 and newer.

  Other Info
  ==========
  The reason this bug existed for so long was that GNOME developers would like to use a different way to let users set environment variables or whatever other common tasks used to be done by running profile scripts. However, that new way hasn't been implemented yet. Now that GNOME 3.22 uses Wayland by default (overridden currently in Ubuntu and Debian stretch), this bug has become more of a problem so developers backed down and provided this solution until the alternative is ready.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: gnome-session-wayland 3.20.2-1ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct  9 14:52:08 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-11 (1277 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130410)
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-02 (6 days ago)

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