gnome-session 2.4 no longer runs $HOME/.gnomerc

[Stephen Hilton]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:06:14 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:58, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:42, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > >>Did something change in Gnome 2.4 to affect this?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, a lot changed in GNOME 2.4.  The new script is ~/.xsession.
> > 
> > .xsession doesn't work the same way.  gdm/Xsession checks for the 
> > existence of .xsession an uses that *instead of* the default "ssh-agent 
> > -- gnome-session".  .gnomerc used to get executed *after* launching 
> > gnome-session so that I could run ssh-add.
> 
> No it didn't.  I always used .gnomerc, and it was always executed by
> GDM.  Attached is the old code to prove it.  Also, if you grep through
> the gnome-session-2.2.2 code, you will see no mention of .gnomerc.
> 
> >   Now, the same ability does 
> > not exist, so I have to completely recreate the overall structure by 
> > first starting ssh-agent in the background in .xsession, then run 
> > ssh-add, then exec gnome-session.  This completely severs the ability to 
> > automatically kill ssh-agent at logout, and I hve to come up with an 
> > alternative, such as leaving a remnant shell to do the clean-up.
> > 
> > What a horrible mess!
> 
> Also attached is my old .gnomerc which calls gnome-session at the end. 
> You can certainly add your own commands to this.  Just make sure the
> last command is exec gnome-session.

Could I get futher clarification on this please :)

Does Gnome 2.4 use ~/.gnomerc as it does in Gnome 2.2 ?


Regards,


Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com