Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Optionally Sourcing the .profile or .login Script

Xsession is able to source a user's traditional HomeDirectory/.profile or HomeDirectory/.login scripts. By default this capability is disabled. To tell Xsession to source the .profile or .login script, set DTSOURCEPROFILE to true.

To change DTSOURCEPROFILE for all users, create an /etc/dt/config/Xsession.d script that sets the new value. To set DTSOURCEPROFILE to true for all users, create an executable sh or ksh script, for example /etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/myvars, and set DTSOURCEPROFILE as follows:

DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

Users can similarly change DTSOURCEPROFILE for their own sessions by setting DTSOURCEPROFILE to true in HomeDirectory/.dtprofile.