On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:30:58AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
/ Archaic wrote:
/>/ >xdm isn't messing with the path in the way that you think. xdm is it's
/>/ >own login prompt.
/>/
/>/ Thanks, that's a really good explanation. Same to Simon from the other
/>/ reply. I still don't understand why they wouldn't use the standard
/>/ login procedure and build the environment from there, but whatever.
/>/
/>/ OK, so now I'm convinced that xdm and gdm aren't as evil as I thought,
/>/ how can I configure them to mock my /bin/login procedure? Where are the
/>/ config files?
/
The config files are in /etc/X11/xdm. Xsession even has scripting to
source profile and ~./bash_profile.
I'm resurrecting this thread because I discovered quite by accident the
same situation. I've been getting some strange errors in compiling and
building some of the things I've been doing, and, just on a lark, typed
'echo $PATH' The results were amazing--not at all what I expected and
didn't have most of what I'd put in there building [B]LFS. I checked
both a terminal and init 3 and my path was what I expected. Then I
remembered this thread.
Except for stuff necessary for building, I want to make most of the
$PATH global for any other users of this system. I put the building
stuff in ~.bashrc. However, I'm not quite sure--I've always been weak
in this area--how to do it globally with xdm. Here's what I've gathered
how xdm starts up:
Xsetup-->xlogin widget-->Xstartup (as root)-->Xsession (as user--looks
for ~.xsession also)
It looks like Xsession is the place to do my global stuff. I think the
syntax would be just a line
source /etc/profile
Should I play it really safe and put a test in?
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
source /etc/profile
fi
Any comments, suggestions sarcasm????
Thanks,
Dan
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