On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, o1bigtenor wrote:

>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.

https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession#User_configuration

>
>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.

>

IIRC, It's a dbus component to xscreensaver because it can't talk to systemd,
otherwise. It's not systemd itself though.

>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!

Restart it. Kill the processes and restart them.

>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