Lucio,
I also use Ubuntu 20.04, fvwm, and tcsh.
What display manager are you using? I like xdm and fvwm is started from
.xsession.
My .login is just for setting the environment, and .tcshrc for aliases.
cat .xsession
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
export TZ="America/Los_Angeles"
/bin/mv -f /home/frankb/.xsession-errors /home/frankb/.xsession-errors.old
exec /usr/bin/fvwm 2> $HOME/.xsession-errors
E. Frank Ball III
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 03:36:43PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> I am migrating (actually, configuring a new PC) from opensuse 42.3 to
> xubuntu 20.04.3. In particular I would like to clone my fvwm configuration
> (since I have a screen of the same size), the one in
> http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html
>
> What I am noticing (which is probably not directly related fvwm itself but
> to the way it is started with the X server) is that the fvwm session does
> not run my .login (I am since ages a tcsh user, so I have a .cshrc and a
> .login).Such .login is executed correctly in a ssh session.
>
> The .login has few items (a PATH setting, a font path xset +fp setting
> (plus other audio stuff so far commented out) which is conditional to a
> $?XSESSION_IS_UP, and a setenv of some locale like LC_TIME to en_US.UTF-8)
>
> Apparently ALL of the .login is not executed
>
> (not just the part relevant to XSESSION_IS_UP ...by the way what is the
> correct way in ubuntu to check I am in an X session ?)
>
> I checked with ps -H the way fvwm is started
>
> On suse
>
> 1 1690 root /usr/bin/sddm
> 1690 17584 root /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper ... --start fvwm --user
> lucio
> 17584 17586 lucio /usr/bin/fvwm
>
> On ubuntu
>
> 1 977 root /usr/sbin/lightdm
> 977 34424 root /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 ...
> 977 56656 root lightdm --session-child 12 19
> 56656 56682 lucio fvwm2
> 56682 56759 lucio/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch fvwm2
>
> The difference between fvwm and fvwm2 is virtual. On suse /usr/bin/fvwm2 is
> a link to fvwm. On ubuntu fvwm is a link to /etc/alternatives... which in
> turn is a link to /usr/bin/fvwm2.
>
> Suse has fvwm 2.6.6 and ubuntu has 2.6.8
>
> What is apparent is that somehow suse performs a "login with my shell"
> before starting fvwm (thus setting my environment) while ubuntu starts fvwm
> ignoring my login shell choices.
>
> How can I either change this order, or instruct fvwm under ubuntu so that
> it sets up a basic environment which is then inherited by all child shells
> (in xterm, urxvt or whatever) ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
> For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html
