[ale] Where is X11 overwriting my environmentals?

Yu, Jerry Jerry.Yu at Voicecom.com
Thu Mar 17 12:47:03 EST 2005


For all users, 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclient
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*

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# To: James Sumners; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: RE: [ale] Where is X11 overwriting my environmentals?
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# James -
# 
# Thanks for writing.
# 
# From: James Sumners
# 
# >JS First, why would you be editing /etc/profile for a single user?
# 
# I'm editing it for all users. Its settings seem to be 
# overwritten so I was
# looking at the individual-user level. What I actually want is 
# all users to
# have the given setting, and just override it for _root_.
# 
# >JS Second, what distribution are you using? If you are using 
# Debian then
# >JS the preferred file to edit would be `~/.xsession`. I believe other
# >JS distributions honor the settings in `~/.xinitrc` as well.
# 
# It's an old RH-7.3, but your suggestions probably still apply.
# 
# >JS `man x 7`
# 
# Thanks - I went there but didn't recognize the answer to my question.
# 
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