Re: [saintiss@gmx.net: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:01:12AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:29:33AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are
> > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really
> > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are unaware of
> > for setting these? There's a simple patch attached to this bug report that
> > I'll apply if this feature is really missing. Thank you!
> ...
> > It seems to me that an extra file similar to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources
> > would be an interesting option. This file should source a certain file
> > in the user's home dir (e.g. ~/.xprofile ?) in such a way that all
> > variable declarations there are exported to the whole X session which
> > shall be launched by another Xsession.d script.
>
> I am for this change.
>
> This is excelent help for Japanese-Chinese-Korean-Indic-... people who
> needs to start special user variable and key input helper programs.
>
> This functionality can be used not just " a way to set per-user
> environment variables" but also includes "a way to start up of daemon
> process :-)" without using desktop specific way like ~/.gnomerc.
>
> As I see:
>
> 20x11-common_process-args
> 30x11-common_xresources
> 50x11-common_determine-startup
> 55gnome-session_gnomerc
> 60seahorse
> 75dbus_dbus-launch
> 80im-switch
> 90x11-common_ssh-agent
> 99x11-common_start
>
> I got enough bug reports on 80im-switch not preserving environment
> variable. In the retrospective, overiding 55gnome-session_gnomerc was
> the root cause. When documenting this feature for
> 30x11-common_xresources, you may want to mention that ~/.gnomerc sourced
> by 55gnome-session_gnomerc will overide this setting by
> 30x11-common_xresources.
Thanks to both you and Holger. I've applied the fix using ~/.xsessionrc to
our git repo, and it'll be included in the next upload.
- David Nusinow
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