On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 09:11:53 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:19:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > But I don't understand the concept of "user configuration" for a DM. > > Wouldn't that be like a user configuring /etc/issue, the login prompt > > or /etc/motd ? > > By user configuration, I mean "which files can the user edit, without > superuser privileges, to alter the behavior of the program".
Some of them are listed in the next quoted piece of text. Which ones are not acted on when a DM is used? .xsession? ,xsessionrc? Do you evidence this is not the case? (Forget about .xinitrc. It is an abomination and of no use on Debian). > > Are you perhaps talking about which file, > > like .xsession, .xsessionrc, .Xsession, .xinitrc, etc gets executed > > when you login through the DM? -- Brian.