On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 02:16:59 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 apr 14, 20:37:40, Brian wrote: > > > > $HOME/.bashrc is executed when you log into X. Then its contents are > > sourced once agiain in your .xsessionrc. A double invocation seems a > > trifle inelegant. > > Could you please provide a reference for the double invocation? As far > as I remember this is not the case with most DMs (and is quite easy to > test).
I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. Is this because dash is the shell being used, I wonder? > > It's possible you may want different paths on the console and in X. > > And it's also possible one might not ;) It's something to be aware of though. > > It's also possible that portions of your customised .profile relate > > only to things relevant to the console and which are not needed or > > wanted in X. > > Which would that be? An environment variable, a command such a 'mail -s test someone', for example. It was a general point which was less about what exactly was extracted and used but a relection on doing something which had no purpose. Getting the path from ~/.profile is surely the one and only reason for sourcing ~/.profile in ~/.xsessionrc. What need is there to pull in anything else? > > Four lines. Compare with the single line > > > > export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH > > > > in ~/.xsessionrc. The configuration is aimed exactly at the target. It > > gives you what you want without having to reuse an existing file which > > has a different purpose. > > Which purpose is that? It's described in bash(1). But the point could be made that the path could be put in ~/.mypathforx and that file sourced from /.xsessionrc. This would negate the previous points. But then one would have to ask why bother sourcing a file when the path could be put directly into ~/.xsessionrc. > > And, if we read /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc we see > > > > #Source user defined xsessionrc (locales and other environment variables) > > > > Is your entry a locale or an environment variable? > > I didn't know it was forbidden to use that file for anything else :) It is not forbidden to start a window manager from it either but it is highly inadvisable to do so. For other commands - caveat emptor. :) It would be good if the benefits of sourcing .profile from .xesessionrc compared to putting the path into .xesessionrc were explained. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140402162604.gq3...@copernicus.demon.co.uk