On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 8:23 PM Ludovic Bellière via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
> You need to understand how your Desktop environment is being initialized. It is
> started by the Display Manager, thus inherit whatever environment variable is
> sourced by the DM. To have the DM be aware of custom variables, it needs to
> source that information from a file from your home directory. The file itself
> depends on the DM and/or DE, on how it's been written, because this hasn't been
> standardized.
>
> At the core, all they are doing is starting a Xorg session. Which means that
> /etc/X11/Xsession is being involved. I remember having to change something in
> order to make xfce aware of additional PATH entries, but I since then changed my
> DE to KDE. I can't remember the steps I had to take. It probably has to do with
> a file present in /etc/xdg/xfce4
>
> You could try your luck with ~/.xsessionrc though.
>
No ~/.xsessionrc present.

Did find the following in the update log - - - seems like systemd is
working on sneaking
in the back door even if the front door is bolted shut! (in the
Debian/xscreensaver files.)

 - X11: `xscreensaver-systemd' now detects when a video player has
          inhibited screen blanking and then exits without uninhibiting.

I'm finding things are goofy though - - - I made my xrnadr settings
permanent by
writing the commands to a file and saving it (trying to remember where
!!!!1 -0 - - argh!)
and found that I needed to modify that placement.
Changed the file but I still need to change the setup using xrandr
after every restart.
The bulk of things is correct but it would be nice if it all were.

This issue is frustrating.
I do a reboot and take that 1/2 hour to set everything up the way I want. Then
the screensaver works for 4 days - - - then it quits - - - like every
stinking time!
Sorry people but this aspect of technology is part of my - - - -can't
stand - - -
so I have a lot of sympathy for those who just throw up their hands and just
conform to the majority case - - - - do little and just play with the
toys. I am still
fighting that though.

Regards