Re: gnome-session + .Xclients, stopped working

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:48:11PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
> John Foster (jfoster@augustmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > I think you need to edit the file /home/"your user directory"/.Xsession
> > to correct this. I had a similar problem with getting the gnome-session
> > panels and my gnome defaults to work with Enlightenment after upgrading.
> > I added the line exec gnome-session to this file and everything was OK
> > again.
> 
> I do not use a '$home/.Xsession' gdm loads gnome-session (which is all
> in '/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome') at login. It completely ignores it. 
> Everything works correctly (Gnome, WindowMaker, etc) except it does not
> load my '$home/.Xclients' and it should/used to. :-/
> 
> What I need to know is: what could have caused this file to no longer be
> loaded and why do I end up back at the gdm login when I add "exec" to
> it? 

A cursory read of /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome leads me to believe that all
you want to do is "cp .Xclients .gnomerc". The $HOME/.gnomerc file is 
just sourced like:
	if [-f $HOME/.gnomerc]; then
		. $HOME/.gnomerc
	fi

BTW, the normal user session file should be ~/.xsession not ~/.Xsession,
no? It works for about 90% of everything having to do with starting X
sessions under Debian. 

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