On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:39:04AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 04:44:46PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > If I run a gui, I prefer to be logged in before that gui starts up. > > Probably systemctl disable lightdm as root then editing startx such that > > the last line runs mate gets something like this done. > > That's rather heavy-handed. > > startx runs the user's ~/.xsession or, if no such file exists, the > user's ~/.xinitrc or, if no such file exists, the system-wide > /etc/X11/Xsession script.
Agreed. The whole xsession config may seem complex at first, but
it is the right place to do it: it offers you a way of having
system-wide settings which can be overridden by users ("users?
What is users, anyway?" ;-)
Plus the probability that (re-) installing some package will
obliterate (or worse: half-obliterate) your work is way lower.
Cheers
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