On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:00:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge 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.
Good though it may be, Arch's wiki does not fit what is done on Debian regarding X. ~/.profile is not a Debian component in the configuration of X. The OP should discard advice to use it. > 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. Who knows where the OP obtained his information? Wherever it was from, he should ignore it. -- Brian. >
