Re: Re: .bash_profile problems under gnome

From: Adam Siepel (acs_at_soe.ucsc.edu)
Date: 06/06/04

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    > How X starts up can be a mystery. I use "startx" which uses my
    > ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in
    > favour of ~/.xinitrc.
    >
    > With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should
    > be:
    >
    > #!/bin/bash --login
    >
    > which will make it a login shell, and your bash startup files will be
    > sourced. The file in question must be made executable (ie., chmod 755 ~/.xsession).

    Hmmm. Tried that, didn't work with either xsession or xinitrc. I spent some
    time wading through the startup scripts and it looked like I am supposed to
    be using .xsession. There's also an .xsession-errors file in my home
    directory that seems to be freshly updated on each login. Here are the
    contents:

    /etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
    /etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 acs
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022"
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option ULIMIT
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option MAIL_DIR
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "MAIL_DIR" is "/var/mail"
    /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: using /etc/X11/Xsession.options for options
    SESSION_MANAGER=local/newton:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17355

    any other ideas? 

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