On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:13:09PM +0000, Rob Brewer wrote: > Thank you for your explanations, I must admit that I didn't expect it to be > so involved. I seem to remember mapping out the X startup processes a number > of years ago but I was running RedHat then, so I suppose it has changed a > lot in the meantime.
Debian's Xsession is not the same as Red Hat's. If you need a home directory that will work consistently across different operating systems, then I *strongly* suggest you stick with startx and make .xinitrc a symlink to .xsession for backwards compatibility. Any attempt to reverse engineer and consolidate different display manager + Xsession combos across multiple operating systems is likely to lead to mental breakdown.
