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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 12:33 -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> I can only speak for the sddm's Xsession which is a wrapper arround Debian's 
> /etc/X11/Xsession,

I think if there are improvement to be made, they should go to
/etc/X11/Xsession in order to benefit everyone.

But:
>  what it does is to try to set the corresponding shell 
> environment by loading the user profile files.

Shell environment is enviroment for the shell, not for other stuff.
Especially, .profile is for bash, not for graphical applications.

> 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.

If people are missing environment variables on their session, the right way to
do it is to add them to .xsessionrc. See also environment.d(5) for more global
ways.

Also, for LightDM, we updated the code so the default PATH matches Debian
expectations: 
https://sources.debian.org/src/lightdm/1.26.0-3/debian/patches/01_set-default-path.patch/

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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