On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:19:27 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 25 Sep 2016 at 18:55:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > The existence of ~/.xessionrc appears to cause more problems than it > > purportedly solves. > > And it still won't lie down and die. It is determined to take over the > traditional role of ~/.xsession and prove its worth. However, kudos for > the editing of > > https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession > > to help Debian users. [Thread fork...] A semantic observation (probably unrelated to the aforementioned editing): "... dot in ..." might be more clearly stated as "... source ( or '.') in ..." because the action is to source the script into the current shell (thus retaining the defined vars), as opposed to executing the script in another shell or in a subshell (thus the var definitions are lost when the shell or subshell exits).
