Bob Proulx wrote on 2012-07-18 00:24: > Patrick Strasser wrote: > Do you have a ~/.xsession file?
No, no ~/.xsession file. > Do you have LC_MESSAGES set in your ~/.bashrc? Or perhaps > /etc/bash.bashrc or some other file that might be getting sourced > through the chain? Hit! After suspecting gdm as the culprit - after change from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 sowhere lost it's nice cool session setup selection features - to use old settings that I do not know where to set, I completely overlooked the obvious in front of my nose.[1] I have LC_MESSAGES set in .profile, and in .dmrc. I'm still after many years of using Linux confused about when .profile is sourced, but anyway, I will remove it and try again. > I am sure that I want to launch into a discussion of how ~/.xsession > works but I think I shouldn't unless it is somehow related. I have > posted about the behavior often in the past, though not very > recently. You could find all about it in the archives. Will have a look into that. I really should learn what's going on during a login under the hood. Regards Patrick [1] Learned to ask questions without too much speculation about what went wrong or what _I_ believe is the error. If it was true, I would have solved the problem right away and need not ask... It worked! -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at tugraz dot at> Student of Telematics, Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ju4r10$a33$3...@dough.gmane.org