Bug 32237 – /etc/X11/Sessions/kde- should parse ~/.xsession if found

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kurt Hindenburg 2003-10-28 21:29:11 UTC]

/etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.1.4 (and future versions) should be :

#!/bin/sh

if [ -r  ~/.xsession ]; then
    . ~/.xsession
fi

/usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde


I believe this is the normal, desired, expected result.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
When starting KDE via ?DM, ~/.xsession is not executed.

Expected Results:  
~/.xsession should be executed.

(kvh@rachael)-(00:28)-(~)> emerge --info
Portage 2.0.49-r15-kvh1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test9)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test9 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache userpriv notitles"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.noved.org/
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod
mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang arts
svga sdl gpm tcpd pam perl python esd imlib qt kde opengl mozilla X alsa ssl
truetype gtk2 -gtk mmx 3dnow cups maildir oggvorbis ruby readline -nls -java
-motif cdr -gnome"

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 21:33:09 UTC]

Same thing I wrote in response to this thread on -user...
~/.xsession is meant to _substitute for_, not to _add to_ the standard Xsession
script.

[Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2003-10-28 21:43:14 UTC]

Well then, how would you get the system to execute ~/.xsession?  I don't
really get your point.  /etc/X11/Sessions/kde- has only 1 line which is startkde.
 XSession is not executed in this way.  Hence, kde- should execute ~/.xsession
if it is found.

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 22:01:26 UTC]

~/.xsession should be executed in lieu of /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.1.4 if
it exists.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 22:02:19 UTC]

(Meant to write more but hit enter)
So whatever script executes the XSession scripts should honor ~/.xsession
first.

[Comment 5 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 01:27:27 UTC]

.xsession is normally used when starting from xdm. xsession is executed with
the XSESSION startup selected. As such .xsession is responsible itself to
start a windowmanager. As such .xsession can only replace any other startscript,
never be sourced from it. There is currently no standard solution for starting
somethings before the windowmanager independent of that windowmanager.

Take a look at bug #14872, there I have a proposed solution to this deficiency.