Re: Setting environment variables

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

Andrei Badea wrote:
> Hello Geoffrey,
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>
> > Andrei Badea wrote:
> >
> > > This interests me. Is your .xsession file run when you start your 
> > > Gnome session through gdm? Mine isn't, and I'd like it to be, but I 
> > > didn't find a correct way to do it.
> >
> >
> > .xsession is used when you start X with 'startx' and .Xclients is used 
> > when you start X with [xgk]dm. I simply create a sym link between the 
> > two, which might be the case for other folks.
>
>
> Thank you for your answer. I tried to create a .Xclients file, but it 
> isn't executed neither when gdm starts, nor when I log into my Gnome 
> session. When is this file supposed to be run? I looked at gdm's scripts 
> and it seems the .Xclients file is executed when you start a Xsession 
> session. But that's not what I want to do. I want to start a Gnome 
> session, but have a script in my home directory run. Is there any 
> elegant way to do this?

I fubarred this one.  The files you need are .Xclients and .xinitrc

Make sure you have one and then create a sym link to the other.  Make 
sure the one that's the real file is executable.

Let me know if that does not work.  Sorry for the screwed up info I 
provided before. (not enough sleep, not enough coffee)

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                            AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995