Re: bash profile not sourced under X
"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:09:34PM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
>
>> Annoyingly (and very stupoidly IMHO) the X environment doesn't run the
>> profile scripts.
>
> I'm going to play around with .xsession, and see if I can't get it to
> work. Is there some wrapper script that's calling it? I'd like to
> compare the Red Hat version to the Debian version, and see if I can
> better understand where Red Hat is pulling it's environment from, so
> that I can tweak my Debian box accordingly. Red Hat 9, for example,
> uses "exec gnome-session" as the sole contents of .Xclients-default (or
> defaults to it, if the file doesn't exist).
Read the man page for xsession on how all this works.
Goodness knows how you find out about .gnomerc though.
Nic
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