Re: [gentoo-desktop] purpose of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/

[Maciej Mrozowski]

On Wednesday 20 of May 2009 08:39:35 Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
> > 090520 Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> >> Reporter of https://bugs.gentoo.org/270250 suggests (via his patch)
> >> that  /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/  should be utilized like "autorun"
> >> and that  xinitrc.d/*  should be sourced by startkde script
> >> (and presumably any other DE initialization script as well).
>
> AFAIK /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ works like this already.

Only in KDE3 session so far (which is pretty useless for it - it does know 
nothing about dbus or consolekit).
If it's about to be executed - is there any corresponding "cleanup" directory? 
You know:
- XDG has it's ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}/{startup,shutdown}
- KDE has its own private ${KDEDIR}/{env,shutdown}
- there is possibility to use ${KDEDIR}/etc/xdg/{startup,shutdown} as well 
(it's not being used yet - maybe we should migrate to XDG completely for KDE - 
it's an easy change)

So I guess we already have enough of "autostart" locations - so imho NO 
desktop environment should even try to touch xinitrc.d - it belongs to xinit 
(even if it's installed by dbus) and xinit should do something with this if it 
cares (so far it doesn't).
Therefore I'm removing sourcing of xinitrc.d/* from all startkde scripts 
(change will be in overlay for some time).

-- 
regards
MM