Do any utilities exist to help users intelligently edit ~/.xsession files like fleacollar.sh for setting up mutt?
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:39:04 > From: Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment > Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:39:23 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > 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. > > The Debian /etc/X11/Xsession script runs the desktop environment > or window manager that was selected via the Debian "alternatives" > system, by checking for /usr/bin/x-session-manager or > /usr/bin/x-window-manager. Both of which are configured via > update-alternatives. > > A typical user running "startx" will either rely on the alternatives > system to decide what programs to run for the X session, or will write > a ~/.xsession file to take full control. > > Editing startx itself is not a common choice, and I wouldn't recommend > it -- if for no other reason than simply because your edits will be > lost when the package is updated. > > --
