On Mi, 02 apr 14, 17:26:04, Brian wrote: > > > > It's possible you may want different paths on the console and in > > > X. > > > > And it's also possible one might not ;) > > It's something to be aware of though. Sure, otherwise I might end with different paths on the console and in X and I don't want that ;)
> > > It's also possible that portions of your customised .profile relate > > > only to things relevant to the console and which are not needed or > > > wanted in X. > > > > Which would that be? > > An environment variable, a command such a 'mail -s test someone', for > example. It was a general point which was less about what exactly was > extracted and used but a relection on doing something which had no > purpose. Getting the path from ~/.profile is surely the one and only > reason for sourcing ~/.profile in ~/.xsessionrc. What need is there to > pull in anything else? There is not much more in the default ~/.profile and if I put something there I expect to have it in any environment I may find myself working. > It's described in bash(1). But the point could be made that the path > could be put in ~/.mypathforx and that file sourced from /.xsessionrc. > This would negate the previous points. But then one would have to ask > why bother sourcing a file when the path could be put directly into > ~/.xsessionrc. Because whenever you need changes relevant for both the console and X you have to edit two files instead of one? > It would be good if the benefits of sourcing .profile from .xesessionrc > compared to putting the path into .xesessionrc were explained. As far as I know there is no canonical way, method, etc. Personally I'm using ~/.xsessionrc to source ~/.profile because: * the DM is not doing it * I don't want to duplicate what ~/.profile already does Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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