On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:29 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20131210_175158, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:15 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [...] > > I don't know if this is 'the correct way' but what I do is create the > > file ~/.xsessionrc to invoke ~/.profile like: > > > > . /home/tixy/.profile > > > > Thanks. I had been told about ~/.xsessionrc , but in a context where it seemed > that the file should already exist, and since I didn't have such a file, I > was confused as to what to do. Now I am emboldened to actually create my own > instance. Some things in programming can be quite magical. Some demon might > be watching user hidden files and do nasty things if a new file suddenly > appears without proper authorizaion. :-(
Researching a bit more, and looking at /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc ... it certainly seems that a user creating their own .xsessionrc to customise their environment is 'the correct way' to do things :-) -- Tixy -- 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/1386770979.3406.7.ca...@computer5.home