Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
Do any utilities exist to help users intelligently edit ~/.xsession
files like fleacollar.sh for setting up mutt?
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:39:04
> From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment
> Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:39:23 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 04:44:46PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > If I run a gui, I prefer to be logged in before that gui starts up.
> > Probably systemctl disable lightdm as root then editing startx such that
> > the last line runs mate gets something like this done.
>
> That's rather heavy-handed.
>
> startx runs the user's ~/.xsession or, if no such file exists, the
> user's ~/.xinitrc or, if no such file exists, the system-wide
> /etc/X11/Xsession script.
>
> The Debian /etc/X11/Xsession script runs the desktop environment
> or window manager that was selected via the Debian "alternatives"
> system, by checking for /usr/bin/x-session-manager or
> /usr/bin/x-window-manager. Both of which are configured via
> update-alternatives.
>
> A typical user running "startx" will either rely on the alternatives
> system to decide what programs to run for the X session, or will write
> a ~/.xsession file to take full control.
>
> Editing startx itself is not a common choice, and I wouldn't recommend
> it -- if for no other reason than simply because your edits will be
> lost when the package is updated.
>
>
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