Where to set user specific environments?

[Nikolas Arend]

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:22:57PM +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
>
>   
>> What kind 
>> of "specific environment settings" would you like to adjust? Environment 
>> variables?
>>     
>
>
> The usual things someone puts in .login (when using tcsh) or .profile
> or xsession, and which have to be handed down to all processes of the
> session.
>
> E.g. plenty of environment variables, umask, history settings and
> things like that.
>
>
>   

So, then why don't you put them in on of those files?

> What needs to be done is something like
>
> if [ -e $HOME/.xfcerc ]; then 
> . $HOME/.xfcerc
> fi
>
>
>   

I don't exactly see the problem, why don't you just create a 
.config/xfce4/xinitrc with

if [ -e /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc ]; then
   . /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
fi

YOUR_STUFF


Admittedly, that would be in some sort dependent on the xfce version, but I guess a .gnomerc is also GNOME-dependent.


BTW., with putting the configuration files in .config/, xfce follows the freedesktop standards. If you must set xfce-independent settings, there are mechanisms like .bash_rc and .bash_profile, as you mentioned.
Maybe I'm missing s.th. here.

Regards,   Nick.