On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:27 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote: > On 2007-05-27 22:28, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > AFAIK, that's gconf and not gnome-screensaver. gconf already uses > > g_get_tmp_dir so I think it should use TMPDIR if it's available. > > IMHO, the reason is that TMPDIR is not on the list of allowed env vars > in gs-job.c and gs-window-x11.c in gnome-screensaver. After the call to > gdk_spawn_on_screen_with_pipes TMPDIR gets lost. I'm not sure if simply > adding TMPDIR to the list would result in some security risks, though.
Hi again,
Did you give Josselins advice a try?
If you want gconf to use a sane working directory, you can set the
GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS environment variable. In this case, don't forget to
allow TCP connections for CORBA if you are in a multi-machine multi-user
environment.
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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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