[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#846222: x11-common: Please provide a default xsession in /usr/share/xsessions

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Michael!

El 2017-11-06 a las 13:31 +0100, Michael Biebl escribió:
> Another issue I noticed:
> gdm3 uses /etc/gdm3/Xsession
> sddm uses /etc/sddm/Xsession
> lightdm uses /etc/X11/Xsession

> to start this special default session.

> I wonder if there would be potential for unification (i.e. all affected
> display managers using the Xsession script from x11-common) or does
> someone know why it could be beneficial to keep separate Xsession
> scripts per display manager?

I can only speak for the sddm's Xsession which is a wrapper arround Debian's 
/etc/X11/Xsession, what it does is to try to set the corresponding shell 
environment by loading the user profile files.

For example the bash part reads:
    [ -z "$BASH" ] && exec $SHELL $0 "$@"
    set +o posix
    [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
    if [ -f $HOME/.bash_profile ]; then
      . $HOME/.bash_profile
    elif [ -f $HOME/.bash_login ]; then
      . $HOME/.bash_login
    elif [ -f $HOME/.profile ]; then
      . $HOME/.profile
    fi

The sourced profiles take care of things like adding /usr/games to the PATH, 
which was loudly asked by our users when the wrapper wasn't present.

Happy hacking,
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