Re: .bashrc
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:04 PM, karsten.heymann@gmx.de wrote
Subject: Re: .bashrc
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700 or thereabouts, Greg Wiley wrote:
> > The problem with ~/.xsession for kdm is that
> > you lose the session selection capability of
> > the login app. I ended up creating a new
> > mechanism that sources a local user init file
> > before running the main Xsession.
>
> For me this is wrong. I have an ~/.xsession file and am using kdm. As
> long as I use the "default" session my .xsession is executed, otherwise
> the window-manager i specified. I remember the kdm manpage explaining
> this quite nicely.
You are right, Karsten, but I am referring to
getting the best of both. I wanted a local
initialization mechanism, like ~/.xsession,
independent of the choice of session type.
If I use ~/.xsession, those settings don't take
effect in "non-default" sessions.
-=greg
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