Re: ~/.xsession not read

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xs4all.nl>]

Henning Moll wrote:

> On Sunday 16 March 2003 18:03, Matthijs Melchior wrote:
>  
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> > Try following the code with the following hints....:
> >    
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> Thanks for your hints. Now i see what's going wrong:
>
> /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession is 'started' by kdm with 'kde3' as $1
> Then, /etc/X11/Xsession is sourced, which sources 
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20xfree86-common_process-args. This file set $STARTUP to 
> `which kde3`. Therefore, STARTUP is no longer set to ~/.xsession
>
> is this the normal behaviour? If yes, where to put commands which should be 
> executed on every startup of X?
>
> Regards
> Henning
>  
I am not running kde, I am running Gnome....

I think this is correct behaviour, systems like Kde and Gnome have their
own session manager to start anything you want....
[/usr/bin/gnome-session uses ~/.gnomerc for customizations and logs
everything in ~/.gnome-errors. Expect kde to have similar setup]


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