Hello Ben,
Your login manager invokes the correct script based on the selected
desktop, and your personal one in ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc takes
precedence over /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc . The last line just tells sh
to source (run) the official /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc , but you get to
set your environment variables *first* so they affect everything in
Xfce including services and desktop components. I do not know if this
is documented succinctly in one place, but that is my understanding of
how it works.
Your understanding is correct. A quick Googling gave some helpful
results. Take a look at the 'How to customize starting Xfce' section at
the below link:
https://wiki.xfce.org/tips
Thank you for sharing it with me.
Thanks,
Subhadip
On Tuesday 20 March 2018 09:05 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 20/03/18 16:13, Subhadip Ghosh wrote:
Hi Ben,
Under XFCE, I have ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc something like this:
#!/bin/sh
export LC_COLLATE=C
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
umask 007
. /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
Thanks for telling me this. Since I also use Xfce, it makes sense for
me to go this route. Can you tell me where I can read more about this
file preferably in the context of Xfce?
This is a standard xinit script (like ~/.xinitrc, see "man xinit") but
to support switching between different desktops, scripts in /etc
follow XDG rather than having a single ~/.xinitrc :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_support
Your login manager invokes the correct script based on the selected
desktop, and your personal one in ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc takes
precedence over /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc . The last line just tells sh
to source (run) the official /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc , but you get to
set your environment variables *first* so they affect everything in
Xfce including services and desktop components. I do not know if this
is documented succinctly in one place, but that is my understanding of
how it works.
Kind regards,
