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From: Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:04:48
Message-Id: 184110a70912140331p4ef975dcg4853d8582250c585@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? by Mick
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>:
5 >
6 >> I ran across this issue last night.
7 >>
8 >> At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead,
9 >> setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do
10 >> it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]:
11 >>
12 >>        ewarn "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm,"
13 >>        ewarn "you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or"
14 >>        ewarn "any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the
15 >> login session."
16 >>        ewarn "You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire system,"
17 >>        ewarn "or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other shells)."
18 >>        ewarn "Here's an example of setting it for the whole system:"
19 >>        ewarn "    echo XSESSION=\"Gnome\" > /etc/env.d/90xsession"
20 >>        ewarn "    env-update && source /etc/profile"
21 >>
22 >> So, creating /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="Gnome"
23 >> (I use Gnome) did the trick.
24 >
25 > Thanks Mike, most helpful!  What happens if you want to switch between
26 > different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage?  Do you place
27 > them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ?
28
29 Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm the only user on my system and
30 I don't use a graphical login manager.
31
32 Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus@×××××××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com>