Marc Wilson wrote: > ...... > > Debian's X doesn't source those files because it's NOT SUPPOSED TO. Why > would it? Those are files related to shells. > > If you're using startx to launch X, then they're already read.
Right. > If you're > using a display manager (xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm/whatever), then there's no shell > running, so they shouldn't be read. Not right. You have still logged in to the system. Your login-time environment settings should still be applied. Maybe there's a question of which settings serve as your login-time settings. There are some system-wide environment variable settings that are set regardless of how one logs in. (/etc/environment or whatever the PAM modules read.) However, since users don't have control over those, there needs to be some per-user set of login-time settings. Currently, the shell login-time settings are those needed per-user login-time settings. Unless some other per-user login-time settings (that apply regardless of how one logs in) are created, the shell login-time settings should take effect regardless of how one logs in. Therefore, logging in graphically should use the shell login-time settings (or some theoretical replacement meant for common use). Also, in what sense is no shell running? The window manager process (or whatever runs requested programs) is your shell-- it runs other programs upon your commands and it is a process with an environment that is inherited by spawned programs. To avoid having to create an additional set of login-time initialization files for each graphical login tool, the graphical login sequence should re-use whatever mechanism is used when logging in from the console. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
