On 2017-02-20 12:49:34 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:08:00PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2017-02-19 19:52:24 +0000, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 19 Feb 2017 at 11:00:25 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > > On 2017-02-18 20:59:44 +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > > The advice in startx(1) is sound but nothing stops you using a > > > > > ,xinitrc. > > > > > The command doesn't work in a ,xinitrc? Perhaps it is incorrect or the > > > > > DM ignores it. > > > > > > > > AFAIK, .xinitrc is not used by DM's, in particular because X has > > > > already been started. > > > > > > I'd agree with the first statement. I am very unsure about the reason > > > advanced. > > > > Indeed. I think that the reason is that the DM runs /etc/X11/Xsession > > (which starts the window manager at the end), so that this would clash > > with the .xinitrc file, which could do the same thing (the session > > files would be run twice). > > No, no, no. Xsession is invoked by the display manager (DM) as you > said (or by startx). Its job is to... uh... get the session running > (window manager, environment, ssh and/or gpg agent, session dbus > (not on my box ;-) that kind of thing -- it used to "do" desktop > environments last time I looked, but that's a while ago) > > So far I agree with you :-) > > As part of that, it "typically" (that is configurable!) it looks > whether there is a user session RC (typically -- also configurable!) > called ~/.xsessionrc and *sources* it, as part of the session start > up process. The "sourcing" part is important, otherwise you couldn't > set environment variables which get inherited by all your session's > processes. > > See man (5) Xsession and poke a bit through the scripts in > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/, then have a look at /etc/X11/Xsession.options, > then at /etc/X11/Xsession.
I don't see any contradiction to what I've said. Note that I haven't mentioned .xsessionrc at all, only .xinitrc, which is a different thing. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
