gdm, xdm environment

[Brett Worth]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Greg O'Keefe wrote:

> I've started logging in via gdm. When you do this, there isn't a login shell
> that is the mother of all your processes, so how do you set environment
> variables you want, like EDITOR=vi?

Its done through the session selection on the gdm login banner.

Create an executable script called $HOME/.xsession and put in there
whatever commands you want.  Select the "default" session.  Then near the
end do an exec gnome-session for gnome or exec startkde for kde.

Here's mine:

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eval `ssh-agent`
export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa < /dev/null
gnome-session
ssh-agent -k
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Brett

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