By default GNOME folks want us to put all stuff in /usr/share/gdm/env.d (which is a lot of effort for no good reason for us) or use the systemd specific /etc/environment.d to set environment variables. With this patch we just force gnome-session's hand to include the env variables of /etc/profile. --- a/gnome-session/gnome-session.in +++ b/gnome-session/gnome-session.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh +#!/bin/bash if [ "x$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "xwayland" ] && [ "x$XDG_SESSION_CLASS" != "xgreeter" ] && @@ -25,4 +25,6 @@ if [ -n "$REGION" ]; then export LC_PAPER=$REGION fi +source /etc/profile + exec @libexecdir@/gnome-session-binary "$@"