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Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

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On Wed 28 Nov 2018 at 20:18:25 +0000, Brian wrote:

> On Tue 27 Nov 2018 at 12:04:37 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > My understanding is .xsessionrc was created in order to give users a
> > modicum of control over their own lives if they happen to use GNOME.
> 
> It doesn't say that in #411639.
> 
> [...]

However:

https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession says (referring to ~/xsessionrc)

 There are typically three kinds of commands you may wish to use in this file:

   * You may place environment variable definitions here, directly: export SOME_VAR="some value"

This was the reason for ~/.xsessionrc coming into existence.

   * You may dot in some other POSIX shell configuration file: if [ -r ~/.profile ]; then . ~/.profile; fi

A user can, but ~/xsessionrc wasn't invented for that. ~/.xsession was.

   * You may directly run X client programs: xclock -geometry +0+0 &

A user can, but ~/.xsessionrc definitely wasn't devised for that. OTOH,
~/.xsession was.

How does ~/.xsessionrc assume such importance over ~/.xsession in the
grand scheme of X things?

-- 
Brian

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issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2018-11-27 14:10 +0100
  Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-11-27 17:40 +0100
    Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-27 18:10 +0100
      Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-28 21:40 +0100
        Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-29 21:20 +0100
          Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-29 21:50 +0100
        Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-29 21:20 +0100
  Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-27 20:00 +0100
  Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-30 16:30 +0100
    Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2018-11-30 16:50 +0100
      Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-30 17:00 +0100
        Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2018-11-30 17:30 +0100
        Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-30 17:40 +0100
  Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2018-11-30 16:30 +0100
    Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-30 17:50 +0100
      Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-12-02 21:00 +0100
        Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-01 20:50 +0100
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