On 20131210_015742, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 dec 13, 12:15:53, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my > > personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian > > view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I > > think, but have always hacked things until they seemed to be > > working. Now, I want to try to do things in the way the developers had > > in mind when they built the install CD images. > > > > I see the file ~/.profile . It contains code that tests for the > > existence of ~/bin/ and adds it to $PATH , if it exists. But it > > doesn't 'work'. After I have created my ~/bin/. and filled it with > > some scripts, and rebooted, there is still no mention of ~/bin/ in > > $PATH . Why? > > Most display managers don't source ~/.profile (or /etc/profile). I tried > to discuss this with developers, but there was hardly any interest so I > settled for sourcing them in ~/.xsessionrc instead (which is sourced by > the X startup scripts): > > > ,----[ ~/.xsessionrc ] > | . /etc/profile > | . ~/.profile > `----
I looked for ~/.xsessionrc and find that I don't have such a file in my ~/ !!! But I do have some strange files that I had notice for several months, namely #.Xresources# #.muttrc# #test# and #x# The contents of #.Xresources# and #x# are X resource definitions, but there are conflicting emacs.geometry values in the two. #.muttrc# is a Mutt rc file with statements in it, which if executed by Mutt would completely screw up my current setup of Mutt. #test# is empty. Have you any idea where these came from? It appears to be an attempt at a new different way of planting configuration data on a per user basis. The bottom line is that I don't have an .xsessionrc , and therefore its not a good place for me to put profile files sourcing. Suggestions? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131210215857.ga4...@big.lan.gnu
