Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
> The question is: is there a personal file that can be used for this purpose,
> no matter *how* one starts his or her desktop environment? I suspect that
> the answer is "no", but there might be a best practice: one or two or perhaps
> a
> handful of possibilities for different methods of desktop initialization.
>
Assuming that /etc/X11/Xsession is actually more general than just Ubuntu,
then there does seem to be a single place where things like environment variable
definitions can be picked up: ~/.xsessionrc.
First, at the top of /etc/X11/Xsession it says:
# global Xsession file -- used by display managers and xinit (startx)
[ But, forewarned is forearmed - the man page for Xsession (worth
reading in its entirety for all the caveats) says:
/etc/X11/Xsession is a Bourne shell (sh(1)) script which is run
when an X Window System ses‐ sion is begun by startx(1x) or a
display manager such as xdm(1x). (Some display managers only
invoke Xsession when specifically directed to so by the user; see
the documentation for your display manager to find out more.)
]
Second, it defines (among other things)
SYSSESSIONDIR=/etc/X11/Xsession.d
USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession
USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc
Third, it sources all the files in $SYSSESSIONDIR:
SESSIONFILES=$(run-parts --list $SYSSESSIONDIR)
if [ -n "$SESSIONFILES" ]; then
set +e
for SESSIONFILE in $SESSIONFILES; do
. $SESSIONFILE
done
set -e
fi
Fourth, one of the files in /etc/X11/Xsession.d is 40x11-common_xsessionrc
which reads in its entirety:
# This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
#Source user defined xsessionrc (locales and other environment variables)
if [ -r "$USERXSESSIONRC" ]; then
. "$USERXSESSIONRC"
fi
So it seems that ~/.xsessionrc is sourced very early in the desktop
initialization and might serve as a universal provider of e.g. environment
variables.
Nick
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