Re: [OCLUG-Tech] acceptable bourne shell function names

[Stephen Gregory <oclug [ at ] kernelpanic [ dot ] ca>]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> 
> I've tried an .xsession with
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #!/bin/bash

Is your .xsession an executable? e.g. chmod u+x .xsession.

If not then the system Xsession script may run the .xsession using sh.
This is the case on an Ubuntu 8.10 machine. For the gory details see

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup
/etc/X11/Xsession

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sg