Hi,
From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging
dock
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 21:18:28 +0200
I think we should set XCURSOR_PATH via
‘session-environment-service-type’ like in the patch I posted. I
find
it marginally nicer than setting it in /etc/profile because that
way it
remains close to ‘gnome-service-type’; we need to do the same in
‘xfce-service-type’ though. WDYT?
Sure, I agree. My choice of /etc/profile was not really motivated: I
just looked for the first place I could set an environment variable,
and used that, thinking there would be someone to tell me if this was
a good place to put it, or not.
Then, eventually, we can add XCURSOR_PATH as a search path
definition of
‘libxcursor’, but due to bug 20255, it won’t be effective here; so
that’ll be a mostly cosmetic change.
Adding it as a “cosmetic change” is perhaps useful as a reminder that
we can improve this in the future. Also (bug 22138), I believe
search paths of dependencies are not propagated, so users would also
have to explicitly install libXcursor itself in a profile to have
this take effect? No strong opinion here :)
One less bug for the 0.14 release (come and switch back already,
Mohammed... :-) )
Thomas
