Joe Baker wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:09:27 -0500, Steve Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joe Auerbach wrote: >> >>> Interestingly enough, as far as I can tell, ubuntu has no .xsession >>> file. I have no idea how it logs you into X, but there is no >>> ~/.xsession. >>> >> >> On my Debian Sarge system there's no ~/.xsession by default, but if I >> create one it will be honored. Try looking under /etc/X11 for the system >> wide Xsession script, the Xsession.d directory and Xsession.options. The >> options file specifically has a flag "allow-user-xsession" indicating >> whether or not the ~/.xsession file will be used. (also see "man >> Xsession") >> >> This is on Debian, but I figure Ubuntu should be pretty similar. >> >> -Steve > > > Steve Crayford, > Thank You for revealing to me the reason Mandrake 10.1 doesn't honor > the ~/.xsession file. I've seen various pluggable startup scripts > similiar to what you've described for starting daemons in /etc/init.d > and /etc/logrotate.d and for modules to load in apache and for xinetd, > but I never imagined there was a similiar architecture for starting > programs inside X displays. With your hints above I was able to see > that in the /etc/X11/xinit.d directory which does not contain any files > containing .xsession. Rather the directory contains these files: > bluez-pin* mandrakegalaxy* menu* Mod_Meta_L_Disable* > mouse_buttons* net_applet* numlock* s2u.sh* > > I'd always wanted to get certian users to initiate vncviewer sessions > from a window-manager-less screen using kdm's auto-login feature so > they could re-connect to their persistant vncserver session. Thanks to > _YOU_ I think I can finally make this a reality! > > -Joe Baker
Aw shucks. This'll go to my head. :) Happy to help. -Steve ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
