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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
