How to set environment early in X session startup?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> I have the following in my .xprofile to overcome a bug/issue in the
> Gnome X startup process which doesn't initialise the
> gnome-keyring-daemon properly:-
>
>    eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start)
>    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
>    export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET
>
> This works perfectly for ssh connections etc. but *doesn't* work for any
> programs run from the menus because the environment for the menus is set
> before .xprofile is run.  In particular it doesn't work if I run
> evolution from the menu and so it takes a long time to start up while
> waiting for (and failing to get) a connection to the gnome-keyring-daemon.
>
> So I need to set the environment earlier in the X startup process, where
> can I do this? I'd really like to do it by adding something to my $HOME
> directory so that it won't get lost in upgrades.

Would ".profile" be early enough?