-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:07:38AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, August 15, 2015 11:29 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:04:17PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 15/08/2015, Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> wrote: > ... > >> How do I modify the login script? I do not know the file name or path, > >> for the login script. > > I am asking the same question Bret is asking; my system is Jessie with xfce. > > It appears that the bash startup script is ".bashrc". I read the man > pages for XINIT, Xsession, and XMODMAP, and I read the > www.debian-administration.org article "Running applications automatically > when X starts" (which article has specifics for KDE and GNOME), and now I > am more confused than before.
See my answer to Bret: the short version is that for things X, you typically go to the xinit mechanism (which tries to gather system-wide and user-specific things in a meaningful way), whereas for things shell (that might include setting environment variables to help X programs called from the command line find their stuff) you use .profile, .bashrc, .bash_login and friends. For special cases (setting a key map) I'd try to find out whether there's a "desktop environment" (in your case XFCE) way of doing things. Otherwise you might be fighting you DE instead of using it. HTH - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXQPLQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZI2QCfcVmbIQpoHsJXvFSJdScPZ0UB oyUAn0l4OWjhxq0Yod9cazFWDwdC9Rxx =1T19 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
