.xinitrc and .xsession not running

Question

I am trying to get some commands to run in these files nothing is working.

First file ~/.xinitrc:

#!/bin/bash
echo DERP >>  /home/karl/xinitrc-derp1.log

Second file ~/.xsession:

#!/bin/bash
echo DERP >>  /home/karl/xsession-derp1.log

The logs just do not appear. I'm running pantheon with Ubuntu 14.04.

Answer 1

~/.xsessionrc was the file to use.