Re: Xsession (help)

[Greg Green <greg@advantagecom.com>]

Good observation...I had not noticed the $startup.  Also, the reason I was
copying my global Xsession, was so that I can modify it for myself and not
mess with the global.

Thanks for the help
Greg Green

Alan Su wrote:

> Greg Green wrote (Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:12:45 -0700 ):
> |>Hi,
> |>I am having a very frustrating time with my .xsession.  I can login just
> |>fine if I don't have a .xsession of my own, but if I copy the
> |>/etc/X11/Xsession to my $HOME/.xsession, my console just hangs.  After
> |>this hanging, I have to reboot.
> |>
> |>Here is what my Xsession looks like (the one I copy to $HOME/.xsession)
> |>#! /bin/sh
> |>#
> |>[...]
> |>startup=$HOME/.xsession
>
> This is the first thing to notice...$startup is the file to which you
> have copied the global Xsession file.
>
> |>[...]
> |>if [ -x $startup ] && grep -q ^allow-user-xsession /etc/X11/config
> |>then
> |>  exec $startup
> |>else
> |>[...]
>
> Here's your problem.  It's going into an infinite loop, reading your
> $HOME/.xsession file.
>
> Why do you want to copy the global Xsession file to $HOME/.xsession?
>
> -alan
>
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