Re: Re: .bash_profile problems under gnome

["Adam Siepel" <acs@soe.ucsc.edu>]

> How X starts up can be a mystery.  I use "startx" which uses my
> ~/.xsession.  Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
> favour of ~/.xinitrc.
> 
> With that in mind, change the file in question.  The first line should
> be:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash --login
> 
> which will make it a login shell, and your bash startup files will be
> sourced.  The file in question must be made executable (ie., chmod 755 ~/.xsession).  


Hmmm.  Tried that, didn't work with either xsession or xinitrc.  I spent some
time wading through the startup scripts and it looked like I am supposed to
be using .xsession.  There's also an .xsession-errors file in my home
directory that seems to be freshly updated on each login.  Here are the
contents:

/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 acs
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option ULIMIT
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option MAIL_DIR
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "MAIL_DIR" is "/var/mail"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: using /etc/X11/Xsession.options for options
SESSION_MANAGER=local/newton:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17355

any other ideas?