[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#646938: Bug#646938: xfce4-session fails to export env-variables from gnome-keyring-daemon (ssh-agent and others)

[web.pierson at gmail.com (Thomas Pierson)]

Thanks for your response.

> You've just hit an hard problem. xfce4-session will start the various
> gnome-keyring components correctly, but right now there's no way to pass
> their environment to something else. If you check a pstree you'll see
> the various desktop components are *not* children of those processes, so
> they can't inherit their environment. And yes, xfce4-session doesn't
> support environment passing, but I'm not even sure there's a common
> ground for that.

Ok, so you say xfce4-session simply can't works with
gnome-kering-manager but why is there options about "gnome keyring" and
"ssh-agent" in the defaut list of "xfce session manager"?
Is it a regression due to gnome3 upgrade?
Should we forward the bug upstream to xfce or gnome?

Regards, Thomas.

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