On Friday 01 December 2006 19:01, Rex Dieter wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 01 December 2006 16:52, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Friday 01 December 2006 07:53, Rex Dieter wrote: >>>>> what does >>>>> # echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS >>>>> say? >>>> >>>> Nothing, its empty, and I don't recall seeing it in an env output. >>> >>> That's one problem. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS should be getting defined from >>> /etc/kde/env/env.sh (if using FC stock packaging) >> >> AFAIK I am. The /etc/kde/env/env.sh contains: >> --- >> # from http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ >> # XDG_CONFIG_DIRS: where to look for menu config(s) >> if [ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}" ] ; then >> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg >> export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS >> fi >> --- >>From man bash: >> -z string >> True if the length of string is zero. >> >> Since its zero, as in doesn't exist at that point, common sense says >> that this script, _if_ its being exec'd, should properly set it. But >> it apparently doesn't. I can set another junk var and export it to >> test I think. This would require an x restart I'd think. >> >> I added >> JUNQUE_VAR=123456789;export JUNQUE_VAR above the if [conditional], >> then restarted x. Its is not visible in an env report. This I >> believe confirms that it is not being exec'd at a startx instant. >> >> Where do we go from here, Rex? > >It appears, root's env space is getting reset, whereas normal users >don't. Does that match with your findings? There's a buglet in there >somewhere, but I'll be darned if I know where to look for it. I don't know enough about it to call it "reset" Rex. I put the other var in my ~/.bashrc, and that survived rather nicely. It then existed after logging clear out, then back in to a tty shell. I didn't know we had a mechanism to reset a users env, other than setting all the vars back to "" and exporting them. That, on the face of it, seems so far off that its not even wrong, but >Might be worth filing something in bugzilla (against kdebase initially, >I guess). Done, albeit probably not concise enough. #218143. >-- Rex -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
