[ubuntu-uk] Setting PATH and other env variables

[Andrew Black (delete obvious bit)]

"Sean Miller" <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote in
news:411df980802190328n27519baao929e75a1521a438b at mail.gmail.com: 

> BUT, the way that it works is that the settings are applied at the
> time of LOGIN, therefore if you simply open new Gnome sessions the
> script won't be run, as the new window will simply inherit the details
> at the time of login...

That is what I would expect to happen.

But something is not quite happening like this. I have added a line "touch 
bash_profile_ran" to the file.  It is called when I "su - <username>" but 
not when I log into gnome.