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plmday

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 66

GDM ignores ~/.xprofile

Hi,

I have the following settings in my .xprofile:

SYSRESOURCES=/etc/X11/Xresources
USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources

But it seems GDM ignores it.  Both environment variables have no value.  I have also tried with .xsession, the same.  Any idea?

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: GDM ignores ~/.xprofile

I don't use gdm at all, but I just started using lightdm a couple days ago.  It has a wrapper script that it launches around X, /etc/lightdm/Xsession.  In it, there are a few if statements that source and launch things as necessary. These include loading .Xresources; searching for ~/.profile, ~/.xprofile, etc; and doing all the /etc/xinit/xinitrc.d/* stuff. 

Maybe gdm has a file like this?  Without installing it I can see with 'pkgfile -l gdm' that there is an /etc/gdm/Xsession file.  Maybe you want to have a look through there and see what is actually going on.