Ashish Ariga wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: > > Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your login-time > > shell initialization?) Xsession does not know what syntax your shell is going to want. And $HOME/.xsession is a more general purpose way of doing it. > That's the default behaviour. See Xsession (under /etc/X11/*) > Change the first line "#!/bin/bash" to "#!/bin/bash --login" Thanks for posting your solution. But let me move the solution to your $HOME/.xsession file instead of hacking on the system's Xsession file. Of course what you are suggesting will work great for bash users. But zsh or tcsh or whatever users will find that they still have the same trouble as before. If you are the only user on your machine then that will "work for you". But it is not a general purpose solution. Also, if you move your home directory to another machine you have the same problem again on that machine. Better to make your customizations in your $HOME directory so that if/when you move to another machine you keep all of your customizations with you. Also easier to backup and restore. Here is a good example ~/.xsession file. #!/bin/sh export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH:. # whatever you want exec x-session-manager # or exec fvwm, or exec olvwm, or whatever Don't forget to chmod a+x ~/.xsession If you want to use bash and keep all changes in your $HOME/.bash_profile you can. In the end Xsession will run your script without whatever #! interpreter you specify. #!/bin/bash . $HOME/.bash_profile exec x-session-manager Or your bash --login works too. I had never thought of using that in the xsession itself. But I believe this should work too. I think that is better than my previous solution above since it does all of the right profile name search ordering. #!/bin/bash --login exec x-session-manager For these reasons I recommend the $HOME/.xsession solution as best. Bob
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