Ubuntu Karmic ignores .xinitrc

Question

I've upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 recently, and I can't get it to load my ~/.xinitrc when I log into Gnome.

This is a better candidate for http://superuser.com – Suppressingfire Nov 22 '09 at 21:27 — Suppressingfire, Nov 22 '09 at 21:27
It's hard to keep all the different sites straight. – oneself Dec 08 '09 at 18:15 — oneself, Dec 08 '09 at 18:15

Mikael S · Answer 1 · 2009-11-22T21:34:37.240

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Do you log in using GDM or any other graphical login manager? They usually ignore .xinitrc and read .xsession instead.

You could symlink .xinitrc to .xsession or the other way around to keep them synched:

ln -s .xinitrc .xsession

edited Nov 22 '09 at 21:34

answered Nov 22 '09 at 21:12

Mikael S

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Shouldn't that be ln -s .xinitrc .xsession ? – Suppressingfire Nov 22 '09 at 21:25
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Hm, in this example, yes. Thanks for pointing it out. – Mikael S Nov 22 '09 at 21:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '09 at 13:45

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I put a call in ~/.gnomerc that loads ~/.xinitrc.

answered Nov 24 '09 at 13:45

oneself

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