On Wed 28 Nov 2018 at 20:18:25 +0000, Brian wrote: > On Tue 27 Nov 2018 at 12:04:37 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > My understanding is .xsessionrc was created in order to give users a > > modicum of control over their own lives if they happen to use GNOME. > > It doesn't say that in #411639. > > [...]
However: https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession says (referring to ~/xsessionrc) There are typically three kinds of commands you may wish to use in this file: * You may place environment variable definitions here, directly: export SOME_VAR="some value" This was the reason for ~/.xsessionrc coming into existence. * You may dot in some other POSIX shell configuration file: if [ -r ~/.profile ]; then . ~/.profile; fi A user can, but ~/xsessionrc wasn't invented for that. ~/.xsession was. * You may directly run X client programs: xclock -geometry +0+0 & A user can, but ~/.xsessionrc definitely wasn't devised for that. OTOH, ~/.xsession was. How does ~/.xsessionrc assume such importance over ~/.xsession in the grand scheme of X things? -- Brian
