Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/rc.conf

[Donnie Berkholz]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:38 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Forrest Voight wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>    I believe that rc.conf contains many values that could be put into
>>> conf.d. For example, DISPLAYMANAGER and KEYMAP. DISPLAYMANAGER could
>>> be put into conf.d/xdm. Then, this variable would not exist with a
>>> non-X environment, and configuration could be more modularized.
>> DISPLAYMANAGER should stay in rc.conf is because XSESSION is in rc.conf,
>> and it doesn't make sense to split them up. XSESSION is unrelated to any
>> service, so there's not really a better place for it.
>
> Isn't XSESSION *only* used by display managers?  I know for a fact that
> it isn't used by "startx" or anything.

Do you now? It's used by my startx.

Take a look at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:

# First try ~/.xinitrc
if [ -f "$HOME/.xinitrc" ]; then
    XINITRC="$HOME/.xinitrc"
    exec /bin/sh "$HOME/.xinitrc"
# If not present, try the system default
elif [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
    exec "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"

in chooser.sh:

# If $XSESSION is "", source first /etc/conf.d/basic, and then /etc/rc.conf
if [ -z "${XSESSION}" ]
then
    [ -f /etc/conf.d/basic ] && source /etc/conf.d/basic
    [ -f /etc/rc.conf ] && source /etc/rc.conf
fi

# Find a match for $XSESSION in /etc/X11/Sessions
GENTOO_SESSION=""
for x in /etc/X11/Sessions/*
do
    if [ "`echo ${x##*/} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'`" \
        = "`echo ${XSESSION} | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'`" ]
    then
        GENTOO_SESSION=${x}
        break
    fi
done