On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:07:33AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > On RedHat a non-root user can create a ~/.Xclients script file and its > contents is executed when the user logs in via xdm. This is quite > practical for starting a couple of applications when logging into X. For > instance I use it to start an xterm, xmms and gkrellm. I also use this > functionality to run xset and modify some of the X server settings. > > However Debian does not suppor any equivalent scheme. I believe the > standard response is that the user should write his own .xsession file > which means each user would have to duplicate the functionality of all > the scripts in '/etc/X11/Xsession.d' which would be pretty ugly. No, this is incorrect. $REALSTARTUP, which may be ~/.[Xx]session, if it exists, is only executed at the *end* of the Xsession.d chain, after all the system Xsession scripts have been run. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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