Re: Re: .bash_profile problems under gnome
> How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
> ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
> favour of ~/.xinitrc.
>
> With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should
> be:
>
> #!/bin/bash --login
>
> which will make it a login shell, and your bash startup files will be
> sourced. The file in question must be made executable (ie., chmod 755 ~/.xsession).
Hmmm. Tried that, didn't work with either xsession or xinitrc. I spent some
time wading through the startup scripts and it looked like I am supposed to
be using .xsession. There's also an .xsession-errors file in my home
directory that seems to be freshly updated on each login. Here are the
contents:
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 acs
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option ULIMIT
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option MAIL_DIR
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "MAIL_DIR" is "/var/mail"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: using /etc/X11/Xsession.options for options
SESSION_MANAGER=local/newton:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17355
any other ideas?
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