Open joeyfurness opened 5 years ago
I found a fix for the problem:
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch) x86_64
Model: VirtualBox 1.2
Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64
DM: lightdm
For anyone who is in a similar situation, lightdm does not read from .profile
or /etc/profile
. dm's like lightdm read from the Xsession configs, such as $HOME/.xsession
and HOME/.xsessionrc
(Both of these need to be created manually). When lightdm opens a new Xsession it will read from these and configure your session accordingly.
My solution was to create a custom script in Xsession.d (these are numbered and will execute in order) that sources /etc/profile
with the following code . /etc/profile
.
I then created a .xsessionrc
file in my home directory and sourced .profile
from there using . $HOME/.profile
.
Hopefully this will help clear up some confusion for those of us using a dm like lightdm.
Under Adding A Panel -> Configuration , setting the environment variable $PANEL_FIFO="/tmp/panel-fifo" doesn't point to a directory that exists. Does /tmp/panel_fifo need to be created ? or is that something that is created from one of the example scripts ?
When I
echo $PANEL_FIFO
i just get a blank output.