Comment 3 for bug 134378

Setting back to incomplete due to your last comment.

Indeed, $HOME/.profile and /etc/profile are what you're looking for.

These files are sourced from /etc/gdm/Xsession (.gnomerc has been deprecated a while ago) and read by your login shell. (From sh man page "A login shell first reads commands from the files /etc/profile and .profile if they exist.") All environment variables set in these files will be available whether you're logging in through gdm or a virtual console.

- Please, can you describe the steps to follow to reproduce your issue ?
- Can you provide the output of the command "lsb_release -rd"
- Can you provide the output of the command "apt-cache policy gdm"
- Can you provide the value of the shell returned by "getent passwd $USER" when logged in with the user with this issue.

Thanks in advance.