[Glastonbury] gdm / GNOME startup - user preferences

[Damon Chaplin]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:43, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:30, tim hall wrote:
> > Last Thursday 30 December 2004 15:26, tim hall was like:
> > > Does anybody know what file _does_ get read that I could copy the relevant
> > > bash commands over to? Or would it be possible to call an arbitrary file by
> > > adding a script to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/? The GNOME documentation on the
> > > matter is unbelievably dense and leads me to think I have to create
> > > a .desktop file somewhere, a format I guess I'll have to get used to if I'm
> > > going to use GNOME. *sigh*
> > 
> > OK, I discovered the GNOME Session Manager. I still haven't figured how to get 
> > the script to export environment variables as .xinitrc would. I'll keep 
> > looking.
> 
> Can't you set the environment variables in your ~/.bashrc file?
> That is the easiest thing to do. On Fedora you can also tweak
> /etc/bashrc to set variables for all users (it is read by ~/.bashrc).
> 
> 
> gdm should have a config file somewhere (/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf on
> Fedora). 
> 
> That has settings like these:
> PostLoginScriptDir=/etc/X11/gdm/PostLogin/
> PreSessionScriptDir=/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/
> PostSessionScriptDir=/etc/X11/gdm/PostSession/
> 
> You could tweak the scripts there I suppose.
> Apparently gdm has some help documentation in the "System" section, but
> I can't see it on my machine. It does have a man page though.

I just realized this won't work. The environment variables will be
forgotten as soon as the scripts finish.

On Fedora there is an /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/GNOME script and an
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script that could be tweaked. On Debian the
scripts are probably different.

Damon