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kdm/xdm startup scripts are broken?
  • From: "Alexander S. Usov" <A.S.Usov@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:51:19 +0100
  • Message-id: <200601201251.19145.A.S.Usov@xxxxxx>
Hi.

Just spent few hours fighting with X11 session scripts.

It seems that they are slightly broken ;)
If you would look inside .xinitrc.template, you will see that
it is supposed to be called by /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession (judging
from the commented-out ssh-add line). However it's easy to check
(by simply examining the contents of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession) that
in the presence of ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc they would be called
directly and not via sys.xsession.

The only reasonable workaround I have invented so far is to create
a dummy ~/.xsession, which just calls /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession and
then put all the things you wanted in .xinitrc.

Is it supposed to work that weirdly?

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Best regards,
Alexander.

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