On Fri 23 Sep 2016 at 10:07:43 -0700, Seeker wrote: > On 9/22/2016 6:18 PM, Seeker wrote: > >On 9/22/2016 10:45 AM, Brian wrote: > >>On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 12:10:35 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:00:11AM -0700, Seeker wrote: > >>>>A little late, but personally I would have tried using '~/.xprofile' > >>>>first. > >>>> > >>>>I believe the information about this from the Arch Wiki applies equally > >>>>to Debian. > >>>> > >>>>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile > >>> > >>>wooledg@wooledg:~$ grep -r xprofile /etc/X11 > >>>wooledg@wooledg:~$ > >> > >>Good catch! You can have a ~/.xprofile but none of the files in /etc/X11 > >>will look for it. startx uses only the files in /etc/X11; it will ignore > >>whatever is in such a file. > >> > >>That does not mean nothing else will look for ~/.xprofile and source it > >>if it exists. It's one of the wonders of Debian; just when you think you > >>have a total grasp of the situation something extra comes to light. Time > >>for some not very onerous detective work. (Clue: DM). > >> > > > >Way back I used to use '~/.profile'. Somewhere along the way, maybe > >because I stopped using GDM, that quit working. The indication at that > >time was it was not a bug and the recommendation seemed to be to use > >'~/.xprofile'. > > > >I'm running unstable by the way. > > > >It's been a while since I needed to set variables during login. > > > >I do see a '/etc/X11/Xsession.d/60xprofile' file that looks like it > >should cause '/etc/xprofile' and '~/.xprofile' to get sourced, but that > >doesn't seem to be happening on my system. > > > >I'm using lightdm for my display manager, lxqt for my desktop, with > >openbox for the window manager most of the time. > > > >Will have to look at lxde and kde to see if it is a desktop thing or > >something else. > > > >Later, Seeker > > > > > > > In spite of the existence of 60xprofile and the fact that '~/.xprofile' did > get sourced in the ast, I'm not finding any information on when you > might expect xprofile/.xprofile to get sourced or not sourced.
To the very best of my knowledge ~/.xprofile has never been a feature of Debian's X configuration files in /etc/X11. However, it is acted on by gdm3 in *its* Xsession script. What does dpkg -S /full/path/to/60xprofile give you? > So it looks like '~/.xsessionrc' is way to go. For what? In what circumstance? > I guess the next question would be.... > > Can we expect this to continue working over the long haul with a Wayland > session or will we have to start putting things into > '~/.config/autostart/'? Pass. -- Brian.
