On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:41:36 +0100 Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 1146047983 past the epoch, John Stumbles wrote: > > I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but > > not found an answer to the question of setting the > > environment for my whole X session, not just for console > > session within X. > > It depends entirely on which session manager is used or > which method of starting your session. If you create a > ~/.xsession script which execs "startkde" you could specify > the PATH before that and have it inherited by startkde and > all subsequent processes. You then would need to instruct > your display manager (KDM?) to execute this. With GDM, you > would choose "default system session". I don't have KDM > handy to check. > > Example .xsession: > > #!/bin/sh > export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH > startkde > > > I would also like to understand what happens when a gui > > session starts under kdm - what scripts etc get run? > > The KDE sysadmin guide covers startup in this kind of > detail: <http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/startup.php>. > KDM calls startkde which calls kdeinit which is the magic X > process and spawns most of everything else. > I do it in a similar way: ~$ cat .Xsession #!/bin/sh --login exec gnome-session Here the "--login" option ensures that .bash_profile is read, so I get the same environment regardless of how I log in. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
