Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:23:31 +1100 Zenaan Harkness sent: > > > My .xsession is mode 755 and contains: > > --- > > #!/bin/bash --login > > exec ck-launch-session startxfce4 > > I may be wrong but shouldn't that be .xsessionrc? No it really should be ~/.xsession. This can be deduced by inspecting the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup file. Or see the man page such as these snippets from it. $ man Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc Source global environment variables. This script will source anything in $HOME/.xsessionrc if the file is present. This allows the user to set global environment variables for their X session, such as locale information. /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup Determine startup program. The X client to launch as the con- trolling process (the one that, upon exiting, causes the X server to exit as well) is determined next. If a program or failsafe argument was given and is allowed (see above), it is used as the controlling process. Otherwise, if the line ‘allow-user-xsession’ is present in Xsession.options, a user-specified session program or script is used. In the latter case, two historically popular names for user X session scripts are searched for: $HOME/.xsession and $HOME/.Xsession (note the difference in case). The first one found is used. If the script is not executable, it is marked to be executed with the Bourne shell interpreter, sh. Finally, if none of the above succeeds, the following programs are searched for: /usr/bin/x-session-manager, /usr/bin/x-window-manager, and /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator. The first one found is used. If none are found, Xsession aborts with an error. And so we see that ~/.xesssionrc is intended to be used to set variables. Therefore almost anything in the .profile or .bashrc should be reasonable. But for X session scripts such as starting xfce then the ~/.xsession script is the documented interface. (However I would be the first to volunteer that the above is a complicated description! It is accurate. But now you know why I think reading the script itself is simpler than the documentation of it.) Bob
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