On 14Sep2021 15:36, Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am migrating (actually, configuring a new PC) from opensuse 42.3 to
>xubuntu 20.04.3. In particular I would like to clone my fvwm
>configuration (since I have a screen of the same size), the one in
>http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html
>
>What I am noticing (which is probably not directly related fvwm itself
>but to the way it is started with the X server) is that the fvwm
>session does not run my .login (I am since ages a tcsh user, so I have
>a .cshrc and a .login). Such .login is executed correctly in a ssh
>session.
>
>The .login has few items (a PATH setting, a font path xset +fp setting
>(plus other audio stuff so far commented out) which is conditional to
>a $?XSESSION_IS_UP, and a setenv of some locale like LC_TIME to
>en_US.UTF-8)
>
>Apparently ALL of the .login is not executed
This is pretty normal. The display manager is running fvwm as your
"session", so it starts it directly without using a shell at all.
This is generally safer because many shell startups have some tty
interaction which doesn't make sense in a batch environment (the
headless process of running fvwm in a GUI directly).
My long standing approach has been to have a .xsession file specifying
my desktop session. Mine is this:
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/profile
. $HOME/.profile
exec $HOME/rc/x11/session
To make your startup easier you'd want a tcsh based script, something
like:
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
source /etc/login
source $HOME/.login
exec fvwm
(Untested, and I am not a csh user so the syntax may be a bit
incorrect.)
In my setups I have environment setting in .profile and interactive
stuff in .zshrc (or .bashrc, or .cshrc for you as a tcsh user). So the
session script sources the .login (environment setting) but _not_ the
.cshrc (interactive things).
To recap, a "text terminal then startx" style login goes:
- login tcsh
- start x11, your environment is already set up
An XDM (et al) style login goes:
- X11 active
- run .xsession
- - source .login etc
- - execute fvwm as the session, so that the logout happens when
fvwm logs out
Just a different ordering.
>(not just the part relevant to XSESSION_IS_UP ...by the way what is
>the correct way in ubuntu to check I am in an X session ?)
I check that $DISPLAY is not empty, and maybe do an:
xdpyinfo >&/dev/null
as an additional check. In Bounre shell that might be like this:
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && xdpyinfo >/dev/null 2>&1
then
... x11 stuff here ...
fi
You'll have to adjust for csh.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
