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[Derek Martin <1468834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the debian manual:

>  any user who defines "~/.xsession" or "~/.Xsession" is able to
customize the action of "/etc/X11/Xsession" by completely overriding the
system code.

It does (or did) that by executing the script via exec...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468834

Title:
  lightdm does not source .xsession

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  There is a decades-old standard protocol for starting up a user's X
  session, which requires display managers to source the user's
  ~/.xsession file.  lightdm fails to do this.  See also Bug #1468832.

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