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

[Philip Webb]

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).
> Judging by location it should belong rather to  xinit
> (and be sourced somewhere in  initrc  maybe),
> yet this directory is provided by dbus and at least on my box
> only contains script to launch dbus session instance in user mode
> (so possibly could be utilized by KDE - I have no idea
> whether there is any point in launching user dbus session for another DE).
> So the questions are still valid for me:
> - what's the purpose of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
> - what kind of applications are supposed to use it
> - what else (apart from mentioned dbus launch) is expected to land there

The dir belongs to Dbus

  root:509 xinitrc.d> equery belongs /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
  [ Searching for file(s) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d in *... ]
  sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d)

so it is unlikely to have any relevance for any other part of the system.

'man dbus-launch' & 'man dbus-daemon' have a lot of info.

HTH

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