On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 17:39:53 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Wow. Thanks for explaining that. Fortunately, I only have Debian and plan > to change things as little as possible in the future, so I think that if I > leave things as they are, they'll keep working for a while. I do have > ~/.xsession and I wondered why there are both. Maybe one or the other is a > leftover from fvwm.
A .xsession file allows you to take complete control over how your X session works. Everything that you want it to do, you just put it in your .xsession file. The advantage is that everything will work exactly as you configure it. The disadvantage of this is that you have to know all of the things you want your X session to do, and how to invoke each one correctly. I don't recommend it for new users.
