On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 14:04:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:31:32PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > This file is a non-Debian file. It is not needed for the simple task at > > hand. I doubt it would ever be needed. > > That's right: according to Debian Policy, files in /etc are the sysadmin's > realm. That's me, on my machine :-)
The OP is trying to accomplish something which is within the rights of a user. What advantage is to be gained from using the root account? > > There is rarely any need to alter any of the scripts in Xsession.d or > > add to the number there. Everything a user wants to do can be done in > > $HOME. Debian's X configuration is very flexible. > > It didn't read my $HOME/.Xmodmap. I wanted it to do this. The place to > achieve that is in Xsession.d. What would you propose as an alternative? ~/.xsessionrc or possibly ~/.Xresources. I've not tried the latter file. You could probably source ~/.Xmodmap from ~/.xsessionrc. > Yes, there's an $HOME/.xsessionrc. I could stick everything into that. > > > bri...@aracnet.com has give a good account of how to use a ~/.xsession. > > Unfortunately, it is probably not suitable to put xmodmap commands (or > > any other commands) in it without starting a window manager also. > > Should work too (my file is called ~/.xsessionrc, though) I feel as though I'm missing something here. :) > > The solution is to put the commands Thomas Schmit has provided in a > > created ~/.xsessionrc. A two-minute (not two-year) job. :) > > See above. It's a two minute job any way you slice it :-) The difference is two minutes in an account a user can completely control as opposed to two minutes in one which is intended for altering things system wide. > > All DMs read the files in /etc/X11/Xsession and, by extension. the user > > provided ones. But a user might feel more comfortable using the DE > > facilities. > > I've had mixed experiences under Gnome (the DE regularly resetting things > I'd set via xmodmap, taking the values out of some gconf-y key-value > store). But YMMV. If ~/,xsessionrc was ignored it would be a bug. On the other hand, I would think that if the same thing was set within gnome it would have precedence.
