0-BitTwisters-siggen.bsh

^ That's all you need if the script is executable, is in a PATH directory and has a #!/bin/bash shebang. No need to call the full path or prepend bash.

Alternatively remove any PATH additions and just call the full path to the script.

Here's a solution (run as your normal user):

tee ~/.xessionrc <<!
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME"/bashers-linked
[ -f ~/.profile ] && . ~/.profile
!

Then log out & back in again.

EDIT: that creates a file at ~/.xsessionrc with the content listed between the exclamation marks. Note to self: stop being such an insufferable smart-ass...

...done

Now I can click the script I credit to 

0-BitTwisters-siggen.bsh

which creates the sig below

The call is still in .profile  as well

###########################################################
###########################################################
#https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752129
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/0/bashers-linked
bash ~/0/bashers-linked/0-BitTwisters-siggen.bsh
###########################################################
###########################################################

How do I get this done auto on log-in?  I'm thinking of a similar
inclusion in .xsession.rc to execute .profile 
{but maybe it's better if I don't think too much}

--
Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera), Kernel=5.10.0-11-amd64 on x86_64,
DM=Unknown, DE=XFCE, ST=x11,grub2, GPT, BIOS-boot

Here's a solution (run as your normal user):

tee ~/.xessionrc <<!
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME"/bashers-linked
[ -f ~/.profile ] && . ~/.profile
!

Then log out & back in again.

EDIT: that creates a file at ~/.xsessionrc with the content listed between the exclamation marks. Note to self: stop being such an insufferable smart-ass...

thanks, I'll try that, been busy with other things :-)

tee ~/.xessionrc <<!
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME"/bashers-linked
[ -f ~/.profile ] && . ~/.profile
!

Then log out & back in again.

EDIT: that creates a file at ~/.xsessionrc with the content listed between the exclamation marks. Note to self: stop being such an insufferable smart-ass...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=752129

See also https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession

Thanks, interesting reads. I was certain that no distro logged
a user in without executing ~/.profile   ...wrong again!

I even tried it in ~/.bashrc that didn't work either, fortunately
it's not a vital issue, in the interim until solution-day I can just
rig a button in the panel to do the same thing on a click.

See also https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession

makeafile.bsh

in the file ~.profile and make that script executable in
directory ~/bashers and then link to it in ~/bashers-linked

To get that path permanently into $PATH I do

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bashers-linked

or I can give the full path to the link in ~.profile

~/bashers-linked/makeafile.bsh

This achieves the desired result ...EXCEPT in Devuan.

The script executes if commanded, it's just that I can't
get it to auto-execute on login :-(

Is ~.profile read at all? 

What else should I investigate?

TIA