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2009/12/14 Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>: |
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>>> I ran across this issue last night. |
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>>> At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, |
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>>> setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do |
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>>> it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]: |
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>>> |
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>>> ewarn "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm," |
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>>> ewarn "you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or" |
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>>> ewarn "any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the |
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>>> login session." |
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>>> ewarn "You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire system," |
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>>> ewarn "or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other shells)." |
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>>> ewarn "Here's an example of setting it for the whole system:" |
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>>> ewarn " echo XSESSION=\"Gnome\" > /etc/env.d/90xsession" |
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>>> ewarn " env-update && source /etc/profile" |
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>>> |
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>>> So, creating /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="Gnome" |
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>>> (I use Gnome) did the trick. |
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>> Thanks Mike, most helpful! What happens if you want to switch between |
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>> different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage? Do you place |
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>> them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ? |
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> Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm the only user on my system and |
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> I don't use a graphical login manager. |
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> Mike |
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This post might go without saying... |
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You can just set this up in ~/.xinitrc then. |
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exec startxfce4 |
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or whatever... |
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Regards, |
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daid |
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