How to run .profile, etc

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 24 May 2020 00:14:11 -0500
Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2020 12:07:14 -0700
> Joe Riel <joer at san.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 May 2020 19:44:20 +0100
> > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:45:29AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote:    
> > > > On Fri, 22 May 2020 08:59:05 -0500
> > > > Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> > > >       
> > > > > On Thu, 21 May 2020 10:16:16 -0700
> > > > > Joe Riel <joer at san.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > >       
> > > > > > When xfce4 starts (I use a graphical login), 
> > > > > > how does one get it to run $HOME/.profile or something
> > > > > > equivalent?        
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sounds like you want $HOME/.xprofile instead; xdm's Xsession 
> > > > > uses it, but no idea if other login managers do...      
> > > > 
> > > > I use xfce4 with lightdm.  The file $HOME/.xprofile never gets
> > > > executed, so far as I can tell (added code to write to file).  
> > > > 
> > > > Do I need to reboot to execute it?  Or should logging out and 
> > > > logging back in (graphical login) suffice?  It doesn't.
> > > >       
> > > The way that .xprofile works is probably much less well defined
> > > and documented than the way that .profile gets run.  Do you
> > > really need something that's *only* run for an X/GUI login?  If
> > > not then I'd investigate why .profile doesn't provide what you
> > > want. 
> > 
> > I want to configure my trackball to emulate a middle click.
> > I've tried adding files to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d but they have
> > no effect.  The only think I've found is to call xinput
> > with appropriate set-prop command.  I don't want it
> > to run from a remote login.
> > 
> > As mentioned in previous reply, neither .profile, .bash_profile,
> > nor .xprofile get executed when using the graphical login with
> > lightdm. Maybe there is a way to configure that...  
> 
> 
> Looks like a .desktop file in $HOME/.config/autostart/ will do
> what you want - see the others in there for guidance.
> 
> -RW 


As an example, here's what I have in place for my touchpad:

$ cat $HOME/.config/autostart/synclient.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=SynClient
Exec=synclient TouchpadOff=1
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

-RW