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Re: bash profile how?



On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:41:55 +0300
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> Is it executable? try doing chmod +x ~/.xsession.

Yes. Turns out ~/.xsession isn't executed unless you select "Default
System Session" from the menu.

I have posted a recap of this whole debocle as well as a proposed fix
in a more recent post entitled "Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness".

Mike

-- 
Greedo shoots first? Not in my Star Wars.



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