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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Setup PATH
+export PATH=$HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
+
+# Setup locale
+export LANG=fr_FR.utf8
+export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
+
+# Ensure we use the appropriate gtkrc-2.0 file
+export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
+
+# GDM move Xauthority in some obscure place
+# See:
+#  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614972
+#  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586685
+[ "$XAUTHORITY" = $HOME/.Xauthority ] || {
+    XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority xauth merge $XAUTHORITY
+    export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
+}
+
+# Exec awesome and put its logs in dedicated files instead of ~/.xsession-errors
+exec awesome >> ~/.cache/awesome/stdout 2>> ~/.cache/awesome/stderr