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@m1k3 in response to what you said to @step , that's because your terminal is probably running a non-login, interactive bash. So it never even tries to source profile. Your new bash shell has the original profile which was executed in the great-great-great-grandfather bash process which invoked Xorg...

Hmm, wouldn't the easiest solution be to give your regular login user sudo privileges to execute the run-as-spot program as root, without prompting for a password? Again, on the lines that your regular login user is your last line of defence. If it is compromised, then safeguarding root is of minima...

You're getting confused between login & interactive shells (don't blame you - it's needlessly complicated for maximum flexibility). profile or .bash_profile only get rerun if it's a login shell (without looking at your config, perhaps that's why you are only seeing your profile changes when open...