On ven., 2014-09-12 at 18:29 -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: > Package: xfce4-utils > Version: 4.8.3-2 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/startxfce4 > > Dear Maintainer, > > I'm not really sure if this is a bug in startxfce4 or in lightdm,
Neither. > but > when I start XFCE on a freshly-installed system, /etc/profile and > ~/.profile are not sourced and, well, neither is anything else (if I'm > reading this correctly). What do you exactly mean/want here? > > If you think this is really lightdm's responsibility, see > <https://bugs.debian.org/636108>, which was wontfixed and closed ages > ago. (I'm not certain what other DEs/DMs do, though it sounds like it > varies a lot from distro to distro.) I don't think this is lightdm's responsability (I was the one marking the bug as wontfix) > > There does appear to be provision to edit or totally replace > /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, but it seems like that'd be a pain to maintain ... > > Is it too much to ask for a reasonable, plausibly DE/DM-independant > place to put some shell script to set up my enviroment variables > whether I log in graphically or not? Use .xsessionrc. > (It's no big deal if it doesn't > actually work for all DEs/DMs *yet*; more important is that it be > reasonable to ask for this to be *fixed*. It's also no big deal if > e.g. logging in at the console and then running "startxfce4" ends up > running the code again even though the environment variables are > already set up.) > > Anyway, at the moment /etc/profile and ~/.profile would seem to be the > closest thing we've got to such a place: Profile is for bourne shells. .xsessionrc is the one used by the whole X stack in Debian. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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