On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 15:46:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:45:04PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 14:04:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:31:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > This file is a non-Debian file. It is not needed for the simple task at > > > > hand. I doubt it would ever be needed. > > > > > > That's right: according to Debian Policy, files in /etc are the sysadmin's > > > realm. That's me, on my machine :-) > > > > The OP is trying to accomplish something which is within the rights of a > > user. What advantage is to be gained from using the root account? > > Yeah -- there's a point to that. As already said, there are several ways > to skin that cat. *I* wanted the system-wide X setup to honour the user- > provided .Xmodmap, instead of having each user call that from the .xinitrc.
Any user having a .xinitrc would not have the files in Xsession.d read when X is started. There is a fair bit in the List archives about this.
