On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64: > > Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 > > (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb ~/.Xresources line > > (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called into the loop, so to speak? > > You can use "xrdb -query" to find out. > > In general, I would *not* expect ~/.xinitrc to be used by a display > manager login. Even when you were presumably using startx, you were > supposed to have moved the ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession decades ago. > > The ~/.xsession file is used by traditional display manager logins (xdm) > as well as by Debian's startx.
Ahah! Finally! After 7 years of twisty little mazes, the _real_ reason his `.bashrc` would not load, was revealed to his tired and dungeon weary eyes. He cracked out The One in a faint and final hope of Success At Last™©®, and before he knew what was happening...