Comment 20 for bug 794315

On 2015-03-22 06:06, seeker5528 wrote:
> Somebody posted a similar issue in the Debian mailing list recently,
> the recommendation there was to use '~/.xsessionrc'.

Right. While that works in Ubuntu too, sourcing of /etc/profile and ~/.profile by the DM is established practice in Ubuntu since long, and a difference between the configuration prerequisites in Debian and Ubuntu (unless https://bugs.debian.org/636108 is fixed eventually).