Re: FVWM: a problem of .login starting fvwm (migration suse-ubuntu)

On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 14Sep2021 15:36, Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am migrating (actually, configuring a new PC) from opensuse 42.3 to
>> xubuntu 20.04.3.

Thanks for your interest. In the meanhile I arranged an acceptable 
workaround.

>> Apparently ALL of the .login is not executed
>
> This is pretty normal. The display manager is running fvwm as your
> "session", so it starts it directly without using a shell at all.

> My long standing approach has been to have a .xsession file specifying
> my desktop session.

I'm not sure whether that's compatible with the default xubuntu way.

> To recap, a "text terminal then startx" style login goes:

Used that only once for a laptop which failed to start X at boot (or 
perhaps back in the old times of Sun workstation in the '90s ...)

> An XDM (et al) style login goes:

>> (not just the part relevant to XSESSION_IS_UP ...by the way what is
>> the correct way in ubuntu to check I am in an X session ?)

Apparently in xubuntu the things to be tested are

if ( $?XDG_SESSION_TYPE != 0 ) then
if ($XDG_SESSION_TYPE == x11) then

my arrangement has been to move some conditional code in .cshrc, and leave 
some conditional X server stuff (like the X11 bell emulation) in .login, 
and force its execution in fvwm with a xterm -ls in StartFunction

Thanks anyhow


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