On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:00:11AM -0700, Seeker wrote: > A little late, but personally I would have tried using '~/.xprofile' > first. > > I believe the information about this from the Arch Wiki applies equally > to Debian. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile
wooledg@wooledg:~$ grep -r xprofile /etc/X11 wooledg@wooledg:~$ Apparently Debian's "X session" is heavily customized, as described in https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html#_starting_the_x_window_system Arch's customizations are different and don't appear to be the same as Debian's. What I was missing was a simple pointer from lightdm's joke of a man page to either Xsession(5), with some indication that lightdm *runs* a Debian X session, or directly to the debian-reference web page. At some point I may take a stab at fixing up the wiki page(s) now that we have some actual, useful information. (I should also point out that my Google searches for "debian man lightdm" etc. tended to favor the Debian wiki page, which at this precise moment is just about as useless as the lightdm man page is.)
