Most 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, a

Most 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...