Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ?
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:29 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20131210_175158, Tixy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:15 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
[...]
> > I don't know if this is 'the correct way' but what I do is create the
> > file ~/.xsessionrc to invoke ~/.profile like:
> >
> > . /home/tixy/.profile
> >
>
> Thanks. I had been told about ~/.xsessionrc , but in a context where it seemed
> that the file should already exist, and since I didn't have such a file, I
> was confused as to what to do. Now I am emboldened to actually create my own
> instance. Some things in programming can be quite magical. Some demon might
> be watching user hidden files and do nasty things if a new file suddenly
> appears without proper authorizaion. :-(
Researching a bit more, and looking at /etc/X11/Xsession
and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc ...
it certainly seems that a user creating their own .xsessionrc to
customise their environment is 'the correct way' to do things :-)
--
Tixy
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