On Ma, 01 apr 14, 20:37:40, Brian wrote: > > $HOME/.bashrc is executed when you log into X. Then its contents are > sourced once agiain in your .xsessionrc. A double invocation seems a > trifle inelegant. Could you please provide a reference for the double invocation? As far as I remember this is not the case with most DMs (and is quite easy to test). > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > > fi > > > > > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting > > It's possible you may want different paths on the console and in X. And it's also possible one might not ;) > It's also possible that portions of your customised .profile relate > only to things relevant to the console and which are not needed or > wanted in X. Which would that be? > > And then I used ~/.xsesionrc to source ~/.profile. Here are the contents of > > .xsessionrc: > > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > if [ -f "$HOME/.profile" ]; then > > . "$HOME/.profile" > > fi > > Four lines. Compare with the single line > > export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH > > in ~/.xsessionrc. The configuration is aimed exactly at the target. It > gives you what you want without having to reuse an existing file which > has a different purpose. Which purpose is that? > And, if we read /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc we see > > #Source user defined xsessionrc (locales and other environment variables) > > Is your entry a locale or an environment variable? I didn't know it was forbidden to use that file for anything else :) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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