Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>
>> On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>> Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is
>>> your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with that file?
>
>> ~/.xsession is recognized by the Xsession usually located at
>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession. gdm, usually comes
>> with a link to it, and it is called by default. Xsession will look for
>> several files, one of them being ~/.xsession.
>
> (...)
>
> Nice explanation!
>
> Yep, I already knew that so I asked the OP what is the content of the
> file and what were his goals ;-)
>
I did two trials. In one, the content was just "echo hello world".
Next time it was of 0 length. I was just experimenting to see if I can
put any startup commands which will run everytime I log into GNOME. In
both trials, GNOME crashed.
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