Ubuntu - Don't Use .bash_profile

Well, this annoyed me a little. I am used to putting my keychain (ssh-agent) startup in ~/.bash_profile, so it will be sourced at login either at desktop or remotely. Unfortunately, Ubuntu has taken away this functionality, and replaced it with.... well, we have no idea, since it is not written in the file itself, or anywhere except by google finding.

The proper place (it seems, and I may be doing this totally wrong...) is in ~/.xprofile.

Any comments/better ways of doing this?