Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Bug #475090
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 475090

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Ernst Persson (ernstp) wrote : Re: Karmic /etc/gdm/Xsession fails to source ~/.xsessionrc or apply ~/.Xresources

Right so the new GDM runs all the scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/*
_BUT_, it doesn't run /etc/X11/Xsession which sets up the USERXSESSIONRC variable.
So my workaround was to simply add
USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc
to the beginning of
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc