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They still do some stuff that otherwise you have to put in your xinitrc. Also, keyring sessions.
by klaussilveira 2y ago
They still do some stuff that otherwise you have to put in your xinitrc. Also, keyring sessions.
- arghwhat 2y agoMost of that (e.g., keyring) is PAM, not the manager itself. The xinitrc thing is for all intents and purposes just a command run before your session binary, and sometimes a few extra env vars. Arguably a bad design (just let that be up to the session binary), it oh well. History is what it is. https://kl.wtf/posts/2022/03/12/login-managers-an-introduction.html#fn:2 https://kl.wtf/posts/2022/03/12/login-managers-an-introducti...