Arch Linux

Description: Gnome-session/GDM does not load /etc/profile and the scripts in /etc/profile.d when using Wayland for GDM and/or gnome-session. This means that certain programs that need something from a profile script may not work as expected.


Additional info:
* gnome-session 3.22.2-2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install a program that uses a profile script (like libreoffice-fresh)
2. Change the default value in the profile script (/etc/profile.d/libreoffice.sh if using previous example)
3. Program does not use values in profile script after reloading gnome-session/gdm (for example, if you change the VCL for libreoffice-fresh, it won't be used and libreoffice will continue using the default of gtk3)

This bug has existed for nearly 2.5 years and has not yet been fixed in mainline: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736660

This was noticed a couple months ago by Arch users here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218197. There is currently one fix in the post from 2016-12-22. Here is the patch that was posted:
<code>
--- /usr/bin/gnome-session.old 2016-12-22 14:30:16.118497829 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/gnome-session 2016-12-22 14:35:16.069513827 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/zsh -l

SETTING=$(gsettings get org.gnome.system.locale region)
REGION=${SETTING#\'}
</code>

I can confirm that it works, but this obviously would need zsh as a dependency so I'm not sure this is the best course of action due to that dependency.