On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 9:21 AM Ludovic Bellière via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, o1bigtenor wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 8:23 PM Ludovic Bellière via Dng > ><dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > >> > >> You need to understand how your Desktop environment is being initialized. > >> It is > >> started by the Display Manager, thus inherit whatever environment variable > >> is > >> sourced by the DM. To have the DM be aware of custom variables, it needs to > >> source that information from a file from your home directory. The file > >> itself > >> depends on the DM and/or DE, on how it's been written, because this hasn't > >> been > >> standardized. > >> > >> At the core, all they are doing is starting a Xorg session. Which means > >> that > >> /etc/X11/Xsession is being involved. I remember having to change something > >> in > >> order to make xfce aware of additional PATH entries, but I since then > >> changed my > >> DE to KDE. I can't remember the steps I had to take. It probably has to do > >> with > >> a file present in /etc/xdg/xfce4 > >> > >> You could try your luck with ~/.xsessionrc though. > >> > >No ~/.xsessionrc present. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession#User_configuration > > > > >Did find the following in the update log - - - seems like systemd is > >working on sneaking > >in the back door even if the front door is bolted shut! (in the > >Debian/xscreensaver files.) > > > > - X11: `xscreensaver-systemd' now detects when a video player has > > inhibited screen blanking and then exits without uninhibiting. > > > > IIRC, It's a dbus component to xscreensaver because it can't talk to systemd, > otherwise. It's not systemd itself though. > Just looks like systemd trying to sneak in the back door by making itself totally ubiquitous - - - to a not totally knowledgeable person - - - me.
> >I'm finding things are goofy though - - - I made my xrnadr settings > >permanent by > >writing the commands to a file and saving it (trying to remember where > >!!!!1 -0 - - argh!) > >and found that I needed to modify that placement. > >Changed the file but I still need to change the setup using xrandr > >after every restart. > >The bulk of things is correct but it would be nice if it all were. > > > >This issue is frustrating. > >I do a reboot and take that 1/2 hour to set everything up the way I want. > >Then > >the screensaver works for 4 days - - - then it quits - - - like every > >stinking time! > > Restart it. Kill the processes and restart them. I'll try that. That should be easier than the rebooting. Thanks for the continuing ideas. Regards _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
