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Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> |
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> Reporter of https://bugs.gentoo.org/270250 suggests (via his patch), that |
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> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ should be utilized like "autorun" and that |
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> xinitrc.d/* should be sourced by startkde script (and presumably any other DE |
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> initialization script as well). |
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> Judging by location it should belong rather to xinit (and be sourced somewhere |
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> in initrc maybe), yet, this directory is provided by dbus and at least on my |
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> box only contains script to launch dbus session instance (in user mode, so |
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> possibly could be utilized by KDE - I have no idea whether there is any point |
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> in launching user dbus session for any other DE). |
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> So the questions are still valid for me: |
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> - what's the purpose of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ |
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> - what kind of applications are supposed to use it |
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> - what else (apart from mentioned dbus launch) is expected to land there |
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Everything that needs to run scripts at X start-up puts those scripts in |
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/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/. Also, ConsoleKit places files there too, but |
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makes them non-executable and the files claim they will be sourced |
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rather than executed (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/90-consolekit). |
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Maybe you should ask an X.Org list about this. |
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