Re: bash profile how?

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Michael B Allen:
> Paul Galbraith said:
> > I assume you're using a gdm or xdm or kdm...someone earlier on this list
> > taught me this...I just wrote a .xsession file in my home directory that
> > looks like this:
> >
> > 	#!/bin/bash --login
> > 	exec x-session-manager
> 
> Mmm, for some reason this didn't work. The ~/.xsession file is never called.

Try .xinitrc; GDM (generally!) uses this.  startx (what I use) prefers
.xsession (generally!).

I've never figured out why I need those "(generally!)"s in there; I
just know others do it my way, and it's reversed for them.


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