2009/12/13 Mike Mazur <mma...@gmail.com>: > I ran across this issue last night. > > At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, > setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do > it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]: > > ewarn "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like > gdm/kdm," > ewarn "you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in > /etc/X11/Sessions/ or" > ewarn "any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the > login session." > ewarn "You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire > system," > ewarn "or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other > shells)." > ewarn "Here's an example of setting it for the whole system:" > ewarn " echo XSESSION=\"Gnome\" > /etc/env.d/90xsession" > ewarn " env-update && source /etc/profile" > > So, creating /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="Gnome" > (I use Gnome) did the trick.
Thanks Mike, most helpful! What happens if you want to switch between different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage? Do you place them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ? -- Regards, Mick
