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Second, what distribution are you using? If you are using Debian then
the preferred file to edit would be `~/.xsession`. I believe other
distributions honor the settings in `~/.xinitrc` as well.

`man x 7`

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:18:22 -0500, Mills, John M. <Mills.J at ems-t.com> wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> Topic pretty much says it. I tried setting a particular environmental in
> '/etc/profile' and then found it overwritten when I did an X11 login and
> opened an Xterm under Gnome - or for that matter when I did an ssh remote
> console login.
> 
> Naturally I immediately applied the change to my ~/.bash_profile. This is
> effective on a console or ssh login, but _not_ when 'xdm' does the login.
> 
> %^&*#%$@!!!
> 
> Where is 'xdm' getting the environmental settings it applies? The default
> setting is no longer usable, so I want to change the default for all users.
> 
> TIA.
>  - Mills


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