On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr >> > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not >> > > in .profile. >> > >> > To the best of my knowledge, Debian does not use ~/.xprofile when >> > starting a standard X session. (If some specific package within Debian >> > does, then it's outside my experience, and also unique to that one >> > package.) >> >> >From memory, ~/.xprofile is a GNOME/GDM file. I do not know why the OP >> thinks it has some importance in Debian's standard X framework. I do not >> think any DEbian documentation places any emphasis on it. The only files >> of importance to the framework are ~/.xsession and ~/.xsessionrc. > >I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes, >searching Google for the answer to a Debian question will turn up a >link to the Arch wiki. And pretty often, an answer that works in Arch >will also work in Debian. But not always. > >It's also possible that they turned up an answer involving ~/.xprofile >from some random web forum where GNOME users happened to be conversing, >if what you say is correct. GNOME is rapidly becoming its own separate >sub-operating-system, where nothing works quite the same way as it does >on regular Linux-based systems. Recognizing that the answer you're >reading only applies to GNOME requires a fair amount of experience. And often online advice is at least 5 years old, usually more. Time enough in the world of debian for things change, change back, invert and circle for a landing. I am adventurous to simply try things. Eventually, usually, something works. -- Noah Sombrero
