who runs the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/

[shallpion]

Hi guys. I am using gnome and I wonder who is running the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/. According to /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession I guess it should be
gdm since I am not using startx to start the X. But one thing interesting is that today I created a script /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/myscript to run a program with
personal configuration in my home directory. I thought it should be the "system" or "root" running the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/, so there should
be no way that the program launched by the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/myscript can read my configuration. But wonderfuly I found it did. It seems that gdm
runs all of the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ after the user has login. Am I right? I guess that is why the scripts under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
need o+x...

Thanks a lot, I am a little confused about the starting-up process of gdm.....

[Raniz]

I'm pretty sure that gdm runs any script as the user that has logged in.

An easy way to check it is to write a session that logs your username and then exits.