Debian stretch is out, a lot of obsolete packages, a lot of major upgrades, which all in all resulted in quite a painful transition the last few days. But I’ll tell you more about that in the following posts.<\/p>\n
I don’t really spend much time on Linux nowadays so KDE (along with KDM) has always been my goto solution for a jack all trade no-BS works-out-of-the-box desktop environment. And it worked like that just fine, until… well you know how software goes. KDE has been upgraded, KDM has been depreciated and replaced with SDDM.<\/p>\n
I also use By default, it will execute If we want to bypass this, we need to scrap the argument passed to And now configure SDDM to use this instead of its own version of it, in Debian stretch is out, a lot of obsolete packages, a lot of major upgrades, which all in all resulted in quite a painful transition the last few days. But I’ll tell you more about that in the following posts. I … Continue reading xsession<\/code> so that I have a common way of starting session scripts and daemons (such as this one<\/a>) and configuring stuff across different desktops. I generally selected custom session<\/i> in the display manager and that was it. But SDDM does not seem to provide a way to do so, or at least that’s not so clear.<\/p>\n\/etc\/sddm\/xsession<\/code> which itself sources \/etc\/X11\/Xsession<\/code> to which it will pass as argument the value of the Exec<\/i> line in the desktop file (located in \/usr\/share\/xsessions<\/code>) describing the currently selected session.<\/p>\n\/etc\/X11\/Xsession<\/code> no matter what SDDM thinks the current session should be. To do so create a wrapper for Xsession in \/etc\/X11\/user-Xsession<\/code>:<\/p>\n\r\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\n\r\nexport PATH=\/bin:\/usr\/bin:\/usr\/local\/bin:\/sbin:\/usr\/sbin:\/usr\/local\/sbin\r\n\r\n# Discard argument, we don't care about selecting the desktop environment.\r\n\/etc\/X11\/Xsession\r\n<\/pre>\n
\/etc\/sddm.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n\r\n[X11]\r\nSessionCommand=\/etc\/X11\/user-Xsession\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"