Recently moved to xubuntu 20.4 from opensuse 42.3 and would like to preserve my long term habits. My window manager is fvwm, and my login shell is tcsh.
What I noticed is that my .login file is not executed on an X console login, while it used to be on opensuse. Apparently the
sequence of processes from ps -H is
on opensuse
/usr/bin/sddm/
/usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth ...
/usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper ... --start fvwm --user lucio
/usr/bin/fvwm
/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh ...
on xubuntu
/usr/sbin/lightdm
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 ...
lightdm --session-child 12 19
fvwm2
/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch fvwm2
Anyhow it looks like that the .login is not executed in ubuntu before fvwm, therefore the scripts and terminals started by fvwm ignore the (few) things set up by .login which include:
- setting up the PATH
- setting up the X font path (xset +fp
- some audio settings (currently commented out)
- a few locale setting like setenv LC_TIME en_US.UTF-8
(steps 2 and 3 are conditional of being in an X session, which on opensuse occurs checking $?XSESSION_IS_UP ... what would be the equivalent ?)
I could easily move item 4 to .cshrc or to individual scripts requiring it, but for paths (1 and 2) they should be done once to avoid multiple concatenation of user items to the default "system" path.
Is there a way to have such environment set up at the beginning of the X session ?
Edit: .login is honoured in an ssh login
