Since I moved to 12.10, I noticed a change to my system. Namely, that two files i use - Xstartup and Xreset - were no longer being processed. A little research revealed that in the past this had been done by KDM. Since we're now using LightDM by default, they are no longer being accessed.
One might consider simply switching back to KDM, but I wanted to solve this rather than give in. I found the config file, but it was almost totally empty, containing only these lines:
So I went on looking. It turns out, we (or at least I) have been given an extremely stripped down version of the default config file and my solution did in fact reside in this file, but without any of the remarks that the devs intended it wasn't obvious. I thought someone other might benefit from this info, so I attached the file to this post.
My solution lay in lines 75-76, which in my config now look like this:
You can see by reading it there are a myriad of options that many users might need. It belongs in /etc/lightdm/
One might consider simply switching back to KDM, but I wanted to solve this rather than give in. I found the config file, but it was almost totally empty, containing only these lines:
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=kde-plasma
greeter-session=lightdm-kde-greeter
So I went on looking. It turns out, we (or at least I) have been given an extremely stripped down version of the default config file and my solution did in fact reside in this file, but without any of the remarks that the devs intended it wasn't obvious. I thought someone other might benefit from this info, so I attached the file to this post.
My solution lay in lines 75-76, which in my config now look like this:
session-setup-script=/etc/X11/Xstartup
session-cleanup-script=/etc/X11/Xreset
You can see by reading it there are a myriad of options that many users might need. It belongs in /etc/lightdm/
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