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I wanted to fill bugzilla report about this but found few existing |
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without neither serious solution nor being current. |
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There is an incosistency in current xinitrc behaviour (i'm only talking |
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about xinitrc run through startx, not {k,g,x}dm). |
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Problems: |
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1. /etc/X11/xinitrc tries to load xresources and xmodmap but not xkb, |
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this is done only in /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession so to use it you need to |
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set XSESSION=Xsession (not giving yourself a chance to use chooser for |
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chosing windowmager which is i think it should be used for) |
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2. neither of them sources /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d not letting f.e. |
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dbus to start in your session |
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3. /etc/X11/xinitrc tries to load ~/.xinitrc which is absolutely |
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unneccesary as this is done in startx and running ~/.xinitrc from |
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/etc/X11/xinitrc wont ever happen (and it should work this way as |
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~/.xinitrc should be run on totally clean session, without any |
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resources/modmaps set, for the other case ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients |
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should be used) |
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4. Most of this is workarounded f.e. in /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome which |
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does all whats necessary (xkb, xinitrc.d) but this is just code |
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duplication with /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession and requires other wm's |
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sessions do the same and they dont. F.e. windowmaker, |
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/etc/X11/Sessions/wmaker only runs wmaker bin, without setting anything. |
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Solution: |
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Completely remove /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession and merge its functionality |
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with /etc/X11/xinitrc + add sourcing xinitrc.d (see attachment #1). |
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Remove all resource related things from /etc/X11/Sessions/* and make |
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these files only run windowmagers. All other things would be done from |
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/etc/X11/xinitrc for all windowmagers. |
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Gnome session after this should look like attachment #2. |
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All of these changes shouldn't break anything. |
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If someone is setting XSESSION to Xsession to rely on ~/.xsession, |
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/etc/X11/xinitrc will do it by default. |
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If someone set XSESSION to any other windowmanager it will work as well |
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(chooser is still run from /etc/X11/xinitrc) but in addition he'll have |
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properly set enviroment for wm's that dont it themselves (above example |
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of wmaker). |
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The only thing that will change is when someone have both XSESSION set |
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and ~/.xsession created. Now ~/.xsession will have priority over chooser |
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as it should be in my opinion. If you think this is unacceptable its |
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only enough to change order in xinitrc proposed by me. |
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Patch #3 is /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession against new xinitrc. |
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What do you think about it? If you'd accept it I'd happily review other |
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wm's session files as well. |
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Regards |
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Lukas Pawelczyk |
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