Bug#460820: x11-common: no login shell run when logging in through gdm

["Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 15/01/2008, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > On 15/01/2008, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Isn't $HOME/.xsessionrc exactly what you want
> >
> > No, I would have to set up everything in there then. Even if it worked
> > (the script was just sourced), it is not documented anywhere.
> >
>
> It's documented in man xsession since x11-common 1:7.3+10 (where the
> feature was added).

I was probably looking at the man page in an older version of the
package then, sorry.

>
> > And I do not see why I have to correct the xsession scripts on every
> > machine. They should do the right thing, that's why they are packaged
> > and customized for Debian, right?
> >
>
> What do you call the "right thing"? Do you want us to load your .bashrc
> from Xsession? That's the config for your bash, not for X sessions,
> that's why it's not loaded here.

It's the config for my shell. I (or rather the maintainer of bash or
base-files in this case) put that stuff into .bash_profile to be
executed when I log in.

That's why I would like it executed when I log in. If my shell was
tcsh I would like the tcsh setup scripts executed when I log in.

>
> Apart from the .xsessionrc file that just got added, there is just no
> config file that is loaded for all X sessions automatically.  That's it.
> If you want some environment variables for all X clients, they have to
> go in .xsessionrc, not in what you call the "login shell" config.

I do not want this to be a variable for my X clients. I want it to be
a variable for my login sessions, graphical or not. I cannot put it
into .bashrc because it would probably not get executed for the X
session anyway, and my path would probably grow insanely in every make
script as nested shells are executed. Even the bash man page advises
against that.

Thanks

Michal